China: Further information: Tibetan filmmaker jailed after unfair trial

Index Number: ASA 17/002/2010
Date Published: 8 January 2010
Categories: China

Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen was sentenced to six years' imprisonment on 28 December for "subversion of state power," after a secret, unfair trial by Xining City Intermediate Court, in western China’s Qinghai province. The authorities have refused to let him appeal.