Tibetan Monastery Leader in Critical Condition After Torture in Chinese Prison

10 months ago

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA 24 June: The head of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery is now in critical condition after being imprisoned and brutally tortured by Chinese authorities following a peaceful protest last year against the construction of a mega hydropower dam in Derge County, in occupied Tibet.

According to a report by Tibet Watch, the research wing of the London-based advocacy group Free Tibet, Gonpo Tsering, the chief administrator of Yena Monastery in Derge County&rsquo...

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