15. Jan 2010
Man from Ngaba sentenced to 6 years
(Phayul) Phayul reports that a Tibetan man, Dolma Namgyal, who was arrested in 2008 for alleged links with "separatist forces of the Dalai clique" has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment. According to the report, his family had no information about his whereabouts, since his arrest in Chengdu in April 2008, until 14 January 2010, the day his sentence was passed. The Emergency Coordination Committee, of Kirti monastery in Dharamsala said that Namgyal is currently being held in a prison in Chengdu, Sichuan province.