Tibetan Monk Faces Eight Years for Separatism
Radio Free Asia
July 14, 2006
WASHINGTON—A Tibetan monk in China's southwestern Sichuan province is facing up to eight years in jail for allegedly painting separatist slogans on government property and circulating pro-independence posters, according to sources in the region.
The monk was identified as Namkha Gyaltsen, from the Gyasoktsang family in Thinley Lado village, in Ganzi (in Tibetan, Kardze), the sources told RFA's Tibetan service.
He is one of four master chanters at the Ganzi monastery, said the sources, who asked not to be named.
He allegedly painted pro-independence slogans on the walls of government buildings in Ganzi and on two iron bridges nearby in March this year.
Fearing arrest, one source said, "he ran away from Ganzi to escape to India via Lhasa," the Tibetan regional capital, but police pursued him to Lhasa, detained him, and returned him to Ganzi.
He was arrested at a bridge between Sakya (in Chinese, Saja) and Shigatse (Rigeze), the sources said.
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