16. Jan 2010
Ngaba man sentenced to six years for 'separatist' link
(Phayul) A Tibetan man arrested in 2008 for alleged links with "separatist forces of the Dalai clique" has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment. Dolma Namgyal's family had no information about his whereabouts until 14 January 2010, the day his sentence was passed. Phayul reports that the Emergency Coordination Committee, an internal body set up by Kirti monastery to disseminate information during the 2008 protests in Tibet, said that Namgyal is currently being held in a prison in Binjiang in Chengdu, Sichuan province. He was arrested in Chengdu in April 2008.