{"id":30025,"date":"2012-10-04T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=30025 "},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T22:16:00","slug":"30025-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=30025","title":{"rendered":"China Jails 4 Tibetans Linked to Self-Immolation Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
Published: October 3, 2012<\/div>
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BEIJING — Four Tibetans, including two teenage Buddhist monks, have been given lengthy prison terms for supporting the resistance movement to Chinese rule that has involved the self-immolation of more than 50 people since 2009, according to Radio Free Asia, a news organization financed by the United States government.<\/div>
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The sentences, from 7 to 11 years, reflect Beijing’s hard-line approach to a protest campaign that has so far proved difficult to tame.<\/div>
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Two of the four Tibetan men were charged with leaking news of the protests to “outside contacts,” and the other two were accused of helping a fellow monk burn himself to death at Kirti Monastery, a hotbed of anti-Chinese resistance in Sichuan Province. All of the men were incommunicado for several months; the news that they had been tried and convicted was relayed to Radio Free Asia through two exiled Tibetan monks with contacts in the region.<\/div>
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“Two days before their trial, their family members were sent a notice by the court that the trial was about to begin, but they were not allowed to hire a lawyer for their defense,” Radio Free Asia quoted the two monks as saying. “Afterward, they were given only a few minutes to meet with their family.” The four men were tried in September, said the exiled monks, who live in Dharamsala, India.<\/div>
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The youngest of those jailed, Lobsang Jangchub, 17, was charged with helping a fellow monk named Gepe set himself on fire in March and handed an eight-year sentence. Another monk from the same monastery, Lobsang Tsultrim, 19, was given 11 years for his role in Gepe’s self-immolation, Radio Free Asia said.<\/div>
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The other two convicted men, tried by Barkham People’s Middle Court in Sichuan Province, were accused of “leaking news from inside Tibet to outside contacts,” Radio Free Asia said. A layman, Bu Thubdor, 25, was given a seven-and-a-half year term, and Lobsang Tashi, 26, a monk from Kirti Monastery, was sentenced to seven years.<\/div>
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