More Tibetans Being Jailed: Report

Dharamsala, Dec. 23 – China is handing down further prison terms to Tibetans arrested for protests earlier this year in southwestern province of Sichuan, according to sources, Radio Free Asia reported.

Many of those recently sentenced are said to have taken part in a March 18 protest in Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

“Recently, two monks, Orgyen Tashi and Tenzin Ngodrub, were sentenced by the Kardze People’s Intermediate Court to three years’ imprisonment,” the source told RFA. The source said the fate of another monk named Lobsang, who had at first been detained with the others, remains a “mystery,” For more, “Read”