Chinese authorities have sentenced a Tibetan schoolteacher and writer to a three-year jail term on unknown charges.Jolep Dawa, 39, was handed his sentence by a court in Barkham county in Ngaba prefecture.Dawa—editor of the Tibetan-language magazine Durab Kyi Nga (I, of this Century) and an organizer of Tibetan cultural conferences—was detained in the provincial capital Chengdu on Oct. 1 last year and had been held since that time.Several years ago, Dawa was detained for one month because of his involvement in a mass campaign to end the use of animal fur on Tibetan clothing.

On March 16, 2008, he was again detained for three months.After he was detained Chinese police raided his store and confiscated Dawa’s laptop computer and diary and some of his literary works.