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NGO worker sentenced to life imprisonment: harsh sentences signal harder line on blocking news from Tibet 22 December, 2008 | International Campaign for Tibet

A Tibetan who worked for an international public health NGO has been sentenced to life imprisonment and six other Tibetans to long prison terms for allegedly passing on information about the situation in Tibet, according to a report published in the Chinese press. Wangdu, a former Project Officer for an HIV/AIDS program in Lhasa run by the Australian Burnet Institute, was charged with “espionage” by the Lhasa City Intermediate People’s Court. 

The sentences are unprecedented in their severity for Tibetans accused of passing on information to people outside Tibet. Read more »