Karma Samdup

  • Karma Samdrup, Wrongfully Imprisoned Tibetan Environmentalist, Freed After 15 Years

    Karma Samdrup, Wrongfully Imprisoned Tibetan Environmentalist, Freed After 15 Years

    Prominent Tibetan environmentalist and philanthropist, Karma Samdrup, has been released after serving a 15-year prison sentence. Detained on January 7, 2010, Karma was sentenced on June 24, 2010, by the Yanqi Hui Autonomous County People’s Court in Xinjiang, a region that has long been a site of tension for Tibetans. His sentence, which was initially…