Gartse Jigme, monk and writer, sentenced to five years in prison
By branding Dalai Lama as their enemy and neglecting the demands of self-immolators, they have shown that they consider more than 99% of the Tibetan population as their enemies.
~Gartse Jigme, imprisoned monk and writer
Two days before the launch of Chinese state television broadcaster CCTV’s fifth propaganda film on self-immolations on 16 May 2013, a Tibetan writer was quietly sentenced to five years in prison for writing a book on the issue of Tibet issue including self-immolation protests.
According to exile Tibetan sources, Gartse Jigme, 36, a writer and monk was sentenced to prison on 14 May 2013 for authoring a book with political contents by Tsekhog (Ch: Zekog) County People’s Court in Malho (Ch: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. [Continue reading]
