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Torture threatens life of Tibetan political prisoner

Dec. 30 (TibetNet): A Tibetan political prisoner named Jigme Gyatso serving a 17-year long prison sentence in Chushul prison near Tibet’s capital Lhasa is in critical health condition due to severe torture. In 1996, the Intermediate People’s Court in Lhasa levelled alleged charges of counter revolutionary activities against Jigme Gyatso along with a group of Tibetan residents of Lhasa. Jigme Gyatso was subsequently locked up in Drachi prison to serve a 15 year jail term with hard labour.

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