Nine monks studying at Samye Monastery in Tibet were sentenced to varying prison terms between 2-15 years’ in jail for their participation in the last Spring Tibet protest in Lhoka Prefecture “Tibet Autonomous Region” (‘TAR’) and a monk committed suicide, according to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
In the series of court sentences of the Tibetan people involved in the last spring Tibet protests, more cases of court sentences and other extreme cases of Tibetan committing suicide due to intolerable sufferings are surfacing.