Tibetan monk-teacher found jailed after China disappeared him over five years ago

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(TibetanReview.net, Mar07’26) – A Tibetan monk who disappeared after being taken away by Chinese police from his monastery in an eastern part of Tibet that is now under China’s Sichuan province over five years ago has just been learnt to be serving a six-year jail sentence in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in western Tibet, according to the Tibetan-language tibettime.net Mar 6. He is suspected to have been punished for teaching Tibetan to local youngsters during school holidays and his family members were also stated to have been ill-treated severely.

The monk, Palden Yeshe, 52, was a teacher at Kardze Monastery in Drung-nga Town of Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) County in the prefecture by the same nam...

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