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Tenzin Nyidon
DHARAMSHALA, June 18: Chinese authorities have sentenced two senior Tibetan monastic leaders, abbot Sherab and administrator Gonpo of Yena Monastery to four and three years in prison respectively for their roles in rare public protests earlier this year against the construction of a large hydropower dam in Dege County, eastern Tibet, according to Radio Free Asia.
Sherab, the abbot of Yena Monastery, was widely recognized after a video emerged showing him making a traditional Tibetan gesture of supplication with both thumbs raised while pleading with local officials on February 20, 2024, not to proceed with the dam. Alongside him, monks and laypeople cried out in anguish, imploring the authorities to reconsider the project that threatens to displace entire communities and submerge centuries-old monasteries.
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