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Nun, recipient of human rights award, serving 17 year sentence.

Phuntsok Nyidon is 28 year old nun from Michungri Nunnery. She was sentenced to nine years and later eight years imprisonment, first for a...
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Inmate paralysed from torture

Lhundup Ganden (layname-Tashi or Tashi Gyatso, also known as Ganden Tashi), born in 1968, is a 28 year old former Ganden monk. He arrived...
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Monk serves 19 years for human rights and democracy publications

First detained in 1987 for peaceful demonstrations, Ngawang Phulchung has relentlessly championed the education of Tibetan people regarding their human rights and democratic freedoms....
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Ngawang Choephel in Sangyip

According to a reliable source in Tibet, on 16 October 1996 Ngawang Choephel was transferred to Sangyip Prison. He is presently being held in...
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Tibetan refugees shot by Nepalese police

On 18 November 1996, three Tibetan asylum-seekers were shot and wounded when Nepalese police opened fire on a group of escapees shortly after they...
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Religious “re-education”

The following testimony was taken from an interview conducted on 5 December 1996 by TCHRD. Tenzin Bhagdo, aged 23, from Lhokha of Drepung monastery, arrived...
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Torture of Tibetan Prisoners

... "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering , whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such...
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More political sentences

According to a reliable source, Sholpa Dawa, who was arrested for the third time in August 1995, has finally received a sentence of 9...
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“Last battle” against Tibetan spiritual life

Following a week-long extraordinary meeting of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in Lhasa, the Tibet Central Committee launched a "Last Battle" against...
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Discrimination of Tibetan Farmers

A farmer from Eastern Tibet (name withheld) arrived in India this month and described the difficulties faced by Tibetan farmers under the discriminatory Chinese...
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Abbot expelled and nuns arrested

Rev. Palden Dhondup, the 80-year-old abbot of Chubsang Nunnery north of Lhasa, was expelled from the nunnery in July 1996. According to our source, on...
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Fleeing Tibetans arrested

About 105 Tibetans, at least ten suffering from severe frostbite, were arrested for illegal entry in West Nepal after fleing Tibet, a Nepali daily...
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