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Tibetan Advocate’s Prison Term in China Is Condemned

FILE-- Tashi Wangchuk, a Tibetan entrepreneur and language education advocate who could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of inciting separatism, which he has denied, in Qinghai, China, July 24, 2015. United Nations human rights experts have formally condemned the punishment of Tashi, who was sentenced to five years in prison after giving interviews to The New York Times. (Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times)