07. Mar 2009
Four nuns sentenced
(TCHRD) The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reports that Kardze Court recently sentenced four nuns from Puru-na nunnery, Su-ngog township, Kardze county. The nuns were part of a group of fifty nuns who staged a demonstration outside Kardze county headquarters on 14 May 2008. The nuns were identified as Tashi Lhamo, Serka and Youghal Khando, who were sentenced to two-year prison terms, and Rinzin Choetso, sentenced to three-years. The four nuns are currently serving their sentences in a prison in Chengdu, Sichuan province's capital. The whereabouts of seven other nuns of Puru-na Nunnery who were arrested remains unknown.