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2018. május 17./RFA/TibetPress

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Chinese authorities have released a Tibetan protester jailed for ten years for protesting Beijing’s rule in Tibetan areas, returning him to his family home in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, Tibetan sources say.

Dashar, who had served his full term behind bars but was held for an additional two months before his release, was greeted warmly by relatives and supporters on returning to his home in Sershul county in the Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, his daughter Tenzin Nyidron told RFA’s Tibetan Service.

“He was very happy to be reunited with his mother, and family members and well-wishers welcomed him home by offering him ceremonial scarves,” Nyidron said, speaking from Australia where she now lives.

“Dashar’s prison term expired on March 15, but he was kept in prison for another two months and was released on May 15th. We don’t know what the reasons were for the delay,” she said.

Nyidron said that she had an opportunity to speak briefly with her father on the phone.

“He said that he is fine, and that we shouldn’t worry about him, but he will be seen soon by a doctor in a hospital, so the exact condition of his health should be more clear to us then,” she said.

“He doesn’t look that good to me, though. His face appears to be swollen,” she added.

Dashar, a monk at the Wonpo monastery in Sershul, had taken part in March 14, 2008 Tibetan protests in the capital Lhasa that turned violent after assaults on protesters by Chinese police, and was later charged with inciting “separatism” and handed a 10-year prison term.

Already tightly restricted after the Lhasa protests spread across Tibetan regions of China, Wonpo monastery drew increased police scrutiny in 2012 when monks refused to hoist Chinese national flags at the monastery, the India-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said in an earlier report.

“The ensuing crackdown led to scores of arbitrary detentions, arrests, and unlawful searches of Tibetan homes by Chinese security personnel,” TCHRD said.

Reported by Tashi Wangchuk for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney.