China Says 21 More People Will Go to Prison in Tibet Protests

Authorities have announced that they have made 21 more arrests in connection with the riots in Lhasa last March, bringing the total number of arrests to 76. From the New York Times:

The new punishments, announced by Xinhua, the official news agency, came three months after the first batch of 55 convicted rioters were sentenced to terms ranging from three years to life for crimes that included robbery, arson and disturbing public order.

Xinhua said the new punishments were first disclosed by Nyima Tsering, a Communist Party official in Lhasa, at a news briefing in the Tibetan capital on Tuesday.

He did not provide details about the length of the sentences or the crimes committed for the newest group of convicts. But he suggested that the government had shown leniency toward the 950 people who had been detained since the March 14 riots. “We have been restraining ourselves to a large extent,” he said, according to Xinhua. “We haven’t been using destructive weapons.”

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