Lobsang Tsering

Lobsang Tsering

Lobsang Tsering was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Jan. 31, 2013 for “intentional homicide” in connection to the self-immolation of eight Tibetans, although five of the self-immolations never occurred.

Lobsang’s uncle, Lobsang Kunchock, received a suspended death penalty (Editor’s note: suspended death penalities are usually commuted to life in prison, unless the prisoner is alleged to have committed a crime in the first two years of his sentence). The older Lobsang was a monk from the Kirti monastery in Ngaba prefecture (Chinese: Aba) in China’s southwestern Sichuan province.

No evidence was presented to justify the sentencing despite an assertion made by a judge involved in the case to the Global Times that “authorities obtained sufficient evidence showing it [the alleged crimes] had been instructed by ‘forces from abroad.’”

However, state run news agency Xinhua reported that the two had passed information to Tibetans in India about the people who had self-immolated, hinting at charges against the two for sharing information with individuals outside Tibet.

The two were detained during a drive by Chinese authorities to criminalize self-immolations in Tibet.

Little personal information is known about Lobsang, who is of Tibetan descent. At the time of sentencing, Lobsang was 31 years old.

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