By EDWARD WONG in The NY Times, Oct 24, 2014
A well-known Tibetan religious leader, Khenpo Kartse, has been sentenced by Chinese officials to two and a half years in prison, according to reports from International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group, and Radio Free Asia, which is financed by the United States government.
The sentencing took place two to three months ago in a court in the Chamdo area of the Tibet Autonomous Region, but details emerged only this week. Khenpo Kartse, whose full name is Karma Tsewang, has been detained since last December, and full details on the charges against him are not known, according to International Campaign for Tibet.
The report by Radio Free Asia said he had been accused of harboring a fugitive monk from Chamdo in his own monastery in the Yushu area of Qinghai Province. Khenpo Kartse had been detained in Chamdo before the trial, the reports said, and he might be transferred to a prison east of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital.
The Chinese authorities have carried out a broad security crackdown across the Tibetan plateau since a widespread Tibetan uprising in 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/world/asia/khenpo-kartse-tibetan-religious-leader-is-said-to-be-sentenced-in-china.html?ref=asia
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