The Ngaba County Intermediate People’s Court on September 25 sentenced a Tibetan man named Dhonko Gyakpa to 4 years in prison for concealing the whereabouts of and providing shelter to another Tibetan named Chodhar who was being looked for by the police.Chodhar, 34, a monk of Ngaba Kirti monastery was sentenced in April this year to 13 years’ jail for his alleged role in leading anti government protests during the nationwide protests in 2008. He had gone into hiding for almost a year.
Dhonkho and his wife Soelha were also arrested and detained for over a month but released alter on bail payment of 15000 Yuan. However, the Chinese authorities arrested him and his wife Soelha again. Dhonkho had earlier been jailed for five years on charges of pasting posters with anti government contents in the streets of Ngaba during Chinese government's patriotic reeducation campaign in 1998.