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Home > Paljor Norbu

Paljor Norbu
he depuTraditional Tibetan printer, arrested October 31, 2008, in Lhasa, Tibet, when he was 81 years old, for allegedly printing “prohibited material,” including the banned Tibetan flag. Norbu was sentenced during a secret trial in November 2008 to seven years in prison, possibly on charges of “inciting separatism.” He is being held incommunicado at an undisclosed location.
 
 
 
 


 

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