Tibet: two jailed over Dalai Lama pictures

10 Dec 2009

Two Tibetan web users have been sentenced to three-year jail terms after posting pictures of the exiled Dalai Lama on the Internet. Gyaltsen and Nyima Wangdu were given three-year sentences after being convicted of “communicating information to contacts outside China,” Reporters Without Borders said. Three other Internet users were also arrested for similar reasons on December 1 but have not yet been tried. Read more here

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  1. wallace mawire

    March 3, 2010 at 13:27

    l wish to receive index on censorship.l am a journalist from zimbabwe and used to receive this but it has stopped.

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