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Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], August 30 (ANI): The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Tibetan government-in-exile, has profiled Tibetan political prisoner Lobsang Gephel, shedding light on his ongoing imprisonment for the simple act of celebrating the 80th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama.
In a post on X, the CTA shared details under its “Profiling Tibetan Political Prisoners" campaign. It stated that Lobsang Gephel, a monk of Kirti Monastery, was detained by Chinese authorities on the night of November 30, 2015, while returning to the monastery. He was held incommunicado at Ngaba County Detention Centre for nearly a year before being sentenced by the Barkham County People’s Intermediate Court on December 6, 2016.
The CTA stressed that Lobsang’s case illustrates China’s criminalisation of peaceful expressions of Tibetan Buddhist faith. His prosecution drew international condemnation in 2019, when five United Nations human rights experts denounced China’s ...
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