Former political prisoner Tashi Phuntsok, 60, has actually passed away in Lithang (in Chinese, Litang) county, a Tibetan area in Sichuan province, where the monk had actually staged demonstrations versus logging by China and suffered poundings in prison, an exile source informed RFA. “He was severely beaten while in prison and he became chronically ill […]

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