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| Chinese policemen patrol near the Potala Palace in Lhasa |
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CHINA: 3 SENTENCED OVER ARSON IN 2008 TIBET RIOTS
April 21, 2009: the Tibet Daily reported that a Chinese court sentenced a Tibetan girl to death with a two-year reprieve and two others to long jail terms for setting fires that allegedly killed six people in the Lhasa riot in March 2008. While Penkyi, a 20-year old of Norbu village, Dogra Township in Sakya County, received suspended death sentence, the other two girls, one of them named also Penkyi, aged 23, of Thantoe village, Margkyang township in Nyemo County, was sentenced to life imprisonment and the other 20-year-old Chime Lhamo, of Sholtoe village, Namling township in Shigatse Namling County, was sentenced to jail for 10 years. (Sources: Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy)
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