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Monk sentenced to 3 years, Another dissapeared

Friday, 20 July 2012 08:38 Phayul.com
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

Thursday, 19 July 2012 08:05 Phayul.com
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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Newsflash

Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was yesterday sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Taiwan High Court for taking bribes in relation to a series of bank mergers during his eight years in power, fined NT$180 million (US$5.95 million) and stripped of his civil rights for nine years.

His wife, Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍), was sentenced to 11 years and fined NT$102 million in the same case and stripped of her civil rights for eight years.