Tibetan website man jailed in China
Tuesday November 17 2009
The founder of a Tibetan literary website has been sentenced to 15 years in a Chinese prison on charges of disclosing state secrets, campaigners said.
The International Campaign for Tibet said it had received reports from Tibetan exiles that Kunchok Tsephel, 39, was convicted and sentenced on November 12 in a closed-door trial in south-western Gansu province.
Some of the charges are believed to be related to content posted on his influential website, Chodme, or Butter-Lamp, which promotes Tibetan culture, and also for passing on information about last year's anti-government protests.
Kunchok Tsephel had been detained by police since February 26.
There was no official comment and no way to independently confirm the court case.
