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| | China Human Rights Update (February, 2000) |
 | | In October 1999, hundreds of people (some reports said as many as 3,000) in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, protested the arrests of Sonam Phuntsog, a prominent scholar and teacher seemingly loyal to the Dalai Lama, and two other monks, Agyal Tsering and Sonam Choephel. |
 | | There were reports that some eighty people were detained after troops fired into the air to disperse the crowd, but that many, if not most, have since been released. |
 | | Courts in Aksu prefecture, the No. 4 Production and Construction Brigade, the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Urumqi, and Nonshishi, are known to have handed down sentences ranging between a year's incarceration and the death penalty. |
| www.hrw.org /hrw/campaigns/china-99/china-update.htm (3184 words) |
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