Tibetan environmentalist jailed for 5 years
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A Chinese court sentenced a Tibetan environmentalist who organized villagers to pick up litter and plant trees to five years in jail for inciting to split the nation on Saturday, his lawyer said. Rinchen Samdrup, the third brother in his family to be jailed, ran an environmental NGO in mountainous Gonjo county, in the Tibet Autonomous Region near Sichuan Province.
The NGO mobilized about 1,700 local villagers to reforest the area and report poaching, and ran a small magazine. It worked with international conservation groups and was praised by Chinese media. The Chamdo prefecture court found Samdrup guilty of incitement to split the country, lawyer Xia Jun told Reuters. (Reuters)
