24. Feb 2010
Three Tibetans sentenced in Kardze
(TCHRD) The Kardze (Chin: Ganzi) Intermediate People's Court has sentenced three Tibetans to two-year suspended death sentence, life imprisonment and 16 years term respectively on charges of "inciting separatism" and "disturbing social order" on 17 November 2009. According to a Ganzi Daily report dated 18 March 2009, Pema Yeshi, Sonam Gonpo, and Tsewang Gyatso aka Tsok Tsok, all from Thangkyi township, Nyarong county (Chin: Xinlong), Kardze TAP, Sichuan Province, had been arrested on 11 March 2009 under suspicion of setting fire to the Thangkyi township government building as well as pasting and distributing pamphlets calling for Tibet independence on 28 February 2009.