Well known Tibetan writer Tashi Rabten has been released after serving 4 yrs in prison. མཛའ་འབྲེལ་ཟབ་པའི་གྲོགས་པོ་ཐེའུ་རང་ལགས་གློད་གྲོལ་ཐོབ་པར་སེམས་གཏིང་ནས་དགའ་ཡོད། ཁ་བཏགས་དཀར་བོ་ཞིག་ཀྱང་མགྲིན་དུ་གཡོག་མ་ཐུབ་མོད། རྒྱང་རིང་ནས་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བདེ་ཐང་ཡིན་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཞིག་སྐུར་ཡོད། རང་དབང་ཐོབ་པར་དགའ་སྤྲོ་ཞིག་སྐུར་ཡོད། Tashi Rabten (penname Te’urang) was set to graduate from the Northwest Nationalities University in Lanzhou before his detention in April, 2010. He is the editor of the banned literary magazine, Shar Dungri (Eastern Snow Mountain), in which a group of young Tibetan intellectuals associated with the Northwest Nationalities University, known for their progressive and secularist views, wrote about the situation in Tibet following the 2008 unrest and subsequent crackdown. Tashi Rabten and his fellow editors wrote in the introduction that it was “a sketch of history written in the blood of a generation.” Tashi Rabten also co-authored a collection of essays, titled “Written in Blood,” addressing the situation in Tibet since 2008. He was detained for a temporary period in July, 2009 before his subsequent arrest on April 6, 2010.The young writer has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 03:29:20 +0000