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Two-Year Sentence

November 24, 2022;

Thuksam, 28, from Kardze in Tibet has been sentenced to two years, charged with sending information to Tibetans in exile, reports VOA Tibetan service. He was earlier arrested in May for sharing local news with Tibetans in Europe and India via WeChat. While in detention he was beaten and interrogated. His family was summoned to court where his “crime” was described as “separatist’, and leaking state information endangering the country’s safety.

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