By Tenzin Monlam
DHARAMSHALA, August 16: A Tibetan political prisoner, who is a monk of a Togden Monastery in Ngaba County, has been released from prison on completion of his eight-year sentence.
Sangga reached his hometown on August 13, as local Tibetans and fellow monks received him with well-wishing scarves.
Sangga was arrested on August 13, 2008 under charges of disseminating state secrets to outside “Separatist forces”. The police who arrested him left a letter for the family with his sister’s husband after which he went missing for almost two months.
The Ngaba County People’s Intermediate Court sentenced him to eight years. He was previously arrested in November 2001 for pasting ‘Free Tibet’ pamphlets and posters and sentenced to three years imprisonment. He was later released in 2004 on completion of his sentence.
He is the third child of father Kunko and mother Phuntsok Kyi in a family of four siblings. He was enrolled in Togden Monastery as a monk at an early.
