Tibetan Web Site Founder Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

The founder of a Tibetan literary Web site was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a closed-door trial on Nov. 12.
Tibetan Web Site Founder Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
Kunchok Tsephel, an official in a Chinese government environmental department and founder of the influential Tibetan literary website. Courtesy of International Campaign for Tibet
Matthew Robertson
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Kunchok Tsephel, an official in a Chinese government environmental department and founder of the influential Tibetan literary website. (Courtesy of International Campaign for Tibet)
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.