By Tenzin Monlam
DHARAMSHALA, May 5: A Tibetan political prisoner was released today after completing his two years’ sentence in Ngaba County, eastern Tibet.
Lobsang Tenpa was sentenced to two years imprisonment on November 7, 2014 for carrying out a solo protest on April 26, 2014 in the streets of Ngaba County, hotbed for anti government protests since 2008.
According to sources, he was welcomed by his family members upon his release and would be reaching his home tomorrow.
Lobsang, a monk of Ngaba Kirti Monastery, walked along the main street of Ngaba leading towards the County Administration shouting slogans against the Chinese government’s repressive policies in Tibet. He held high a large portrait of the exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He also called out for ‘the long life of the Dalai Lama and his return to Tibet.’ The Chinese police soon took him away from the site of his protest to an unknown location.
The 21-year old monk was tried without any representation by a lawyer to defend his case.
Lobsang joined Kirti Monastery as a child and was in the ninth grade of the monastic education at the time of his arrest. His father Ngagchung, mother Dolma Choekho and an elder brother live in village number two of Meuruma Township in Ngaba County.
