05. Feb 2009
Four nuns and two laymen sentenced in Kardze
(TCHRD) Kardze County Intermediate People's Court has sentenced four nuns and two laymen from Kardze county for staging peaceful protests in the county earlier in the year. Lunglung Sonam from Thamei village, Kardze county, was sentenced to three years imprisonment in January 2009. He had been arrested on 17 May 2008. On 15 January, the same court sentenced three nuns from Yarteng nunnery to two years and six-months imprisonment. The three nuns are Poewang, of Yarkhag village; Yangzom, also from Yarkhag village; and Lhamo, Thamed village. They were all arrested on 18 June 2008. Ngawang Phuntsok, from Bumshul village, staged a solo protest on 18 June 2008. He was sentenced on 20 January 2009, to three years imprisonment. In a separate trial on 02 January 2009, a nun from Dragkar nunnery, Yangkyi, from Serchu Teng village, was sentenced to one year and nine months following her arrest on 12 May 2008.