By Tenzin Tsetan
DHARAMSHALA, Dec. 05: A Tibetan woman jailed for her alleged involvement in a self immolation of a Tibetan man named Kunchok Tsetan was released after three-year prison term on Sunday. Families and friends greeted Dolma Tso upon her return to Ngaba yesterday evening.
Other detainees charged with the ‘offence’ were also released along with Dolma Tso. A mother of 15-year-old daughter, Dolma Tso, 33, was in detention facility for more than eleven months since her arrest in December 2013. Witnesses (other detainees) said she underwent severe torture and beatings during interrogations, and was even operated upon a few times.
Ngaba County Intermediate Court sentenced eight Tibetans back in 2013 on charge of murder for their alleged involvement in self-immolation of Tibetans. Dolma Tso was among those charged and was sentenced to three years prison term.
The sentencing were linked with the self-immolation of Kunchok Tsetan at Serde village, Meruma township, Ngaba County. At least twenty Tibetans have been arrested from Meruma following the incident. Some were released while others remained in detention.
Dolma Tso helped lift the charred body of the deceased into a vehicle following which she was arrested by Chinese police under suspicion of link with the self-immolation. However she denied the charges of murder and remained firm on her statement that she simply lifted his body to put into the vehicle as she was nearby.
