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Monk sentenced to 3 years, Another dissapeared

Lodoe, 36, in an undated photo. (Photo/Kirti Monastery)
Lodoe, 36, in an undated photo. (Photo/Kirti Monastery)

DHARAMSHALA, July 19: A Tibet monk, missing for the past eight months, was finally traced after he was produced in a Chinese court in eastern Tibet and sentenced to three years in prison on unknown charges.

Lodoe, a 36-year-old monk from the Kirti Monastery in the beleaguered Ngaba region of eastern Tibet was arrested on October 20 last year and had not been heard off since.

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Breaking: Teenage Tibetan monk burns self to death

Lobsang Lozin in an undated photo. (Photo/Kirti Monastery)
Lobsang Lozin in an undated photo. (Photo/Kirti Monastery)

DHARAMSHALA, July 17: A teenage Tibetan monk set himself on fire today in an apparent protest against the Chinese government in the beleaguered region of Ngaba, eastern Tibet.

Lobsang Lozin, 18, set himself on fire at around 12 noon near his monastery’s main prayer hall and began walking towards the local Chinese office in flames before falling down.

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A coalition of pro-independence groups yesterday burns ghost money and military uniforms in front of the Taipei Military Police Station to protest against the military police’s search of a civilian’s house without a search warrant.
Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times

Protesters yesterday rallied outside the Taipei Military Police Station over the military police’s controversial seizure of White Terror-era documents from the residence of a civilian surnamed Wei (魏), an action leaders said represented a “return to White Terror era authoritarianism.”