05. Jan 2010
2 Tibetan nuns sentenced in Kardze
(VOT) Dartsedo (Chin: Kanding) Intermediate People's Court, in Kardze (Chin: Ganzi) TAP, Sichuan province, gave two Tibetan nuns sentences of two and three years imprisonment on 17 November 2009, according to Voice of Tibet (VOT) radio service. Nordon and Lhawang Dekyi, both nuns of Nyima Getsul nunnery in Dartsedo, were arrested on 17 March 2009 for holding a "peaceful protest" in Kardze. Nordon received two years, while Lhawang Dekyi got three. The two nuns were among the 15 Tibetan political prisoners who were paraded on 05 April 2009 through the streets of Kardze. The prisoners had their heads shaven, and their hands and legs chained.