China jails two Tibetan monastery leaders for appealing, protesting, seeking legal help against dam project - Tibetan Review

China sentences two Tibetan monastic leaders for protesting against dam construction in Kham Dege

Tenzin Nyidon  DHARAMSHALA, June 18: Chinese authorities have sentenced two senior Tibetan monastic leaders, abbot Sherab and administrator Gonpo of Yena Monastery to four and three years in prison respectively for their roles in rare public protests earlier this year against the construction of a large hydropower dam in Dege County, eastern Tibet, according to Radio Free Asia. Sherab, the abbot of Yena Monastery, was widely recognized after a v…

China jails two Tibetan monastery leaders for appealing, protesting, seeking legal help against dam project - Tibetan Review

(TibetanReview.net, Jun17’25) – China is learnt to have jailed two top religious leaders of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Dege County of Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, for their alleged role in peaceful protests against a major hydropower dam project last year, reported the Tibetan Service of rfa.org Jun 16. The plan to build […]