Chinese court doubles Tibetan activist’s prison sentence for rejecting verdict

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb21’25) – Chinese authorities are stated to have doubled the prison sentence of a Tibetan activist who had used an online platform to make a defiant criticism of official soft-pedalling in a case of environmental devastation in his village in Sichuan province caused by a well-known Chinese building company. He was stated to have been accused of what has been described as refusing to accept the “charges” against him.

The activist, Tsongon Tsering, 29, was jailed for eight months in Oct 2024 for allegedly “disrupting social order”. He is now under a total of 16-month prison sentence, according to Dharamshala-based Tibetan Centre for ...

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