Tuesday, July 05, 2011

News at Eleven: A young writer and editor of the banned

Tibetan Shar Dungri (Eastern Snow Mountain) magazine has been sentenced to four years in prison, according to a source inside Tibet.

A Tibetan from the eastern Tibetan area of Amdo, who asked to remain anonymous, said Tashi Rabten was sentenced on June 2 by the Ngaba Intermediate People's Court. Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) is a Tibetan-majority prefecture in China's Sichuan province.

from Radio Free Asia: Tibetan Writer Sentenced
then Tibet Will Be Free: Tashi Rabten's sentence, and his poetry

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