China has jailed disappeared Tibetan monk in secret trial after sounding his imminent release

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(TibetanReview.net, Apr01’26) – A Tibetan Buddhist monk who remained disappeared since his arrest by Chinese police in Tibet’s capital Lhasa more than four and half years ago has been found jailed for seven years after a secret trial, reported the Tibetan-language tibettimes.net Apr 1. The monk is originally from Golog (Chinese: Guoluo) prefecture of Qinghai province and was on an extended religious visit from his monastery in Kardze (Ganzi) prefecture of Sichuan province.

The monk, Dhargay (or Dhar-gye), aged around 63, is suspected to have been persecuted for having allegedly sent religious offerings to the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader despised by China as a “splitti...

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