10 March 2007
Tibetan businessman jailed for three years
According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), Chinese authorities in the TAR have jailed a prominent local businessman for three years after finding banned CDs of the Dalai Lama’s teachings in his home, sources in the region say. RFA reports that Penpa, who is in his 50s, attracted the attention of officials by taking in ever-increasing numbers of livestock, in a gesture perceived to be support in the Dalai Lama. Penpa was a businessman in Tsakor village in Dingri county, where he was detained before being taken to Shigatse, in December 2006, the sources said. He received three-year sentence in February, to be served in Nyari prison, in Shigatse.