Tibetan Writer Released From Prison

Source: Radio Free Asia

A Tibetan political writer serving a 10-year prison sentence for “endangering national security” was released Thursday in western China’s Qinghai province, a Tibetan source living in Dharamsala, India, said. Authorities detained writer Arik Dolma Kyab on March 9, 2005, and tried him in secret on Nov. 30, said Arik Gyurme, who is from the same town as Kyab.

Kyab’s “crime” was writing a book in Chinese entitled Unstable Himalayas as well as an article entitled “A Letter Addressed to All Tibetan Brothers,” Gyurme said. In the article, he wrote, “There is no reason to fear. Don’t shed tears. We will certainly be victorious…”

Authorities had arrested Kyab because his publications were seen to be Tibetan nationalist in nature and a threat to Chinese rule in the region.

“Many fans and supporters showed up to welcome him when he arrived at his hometown in Droklung town in Dola [in Chinese, Qilian] county in Qinghai’s Tsojang [Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture],” Gyurme said.

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