Word: choephel
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Dabbing her eyes with a cloth and clutching a photograph of her son to her chest, Sonam Dekyi, the mother of Tibetan political prisoner Ngawang Choephel, gave an impassioned plea to Harvard students last night to put pressure on the Chinese government to free...
...Choephel was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Chinese government in 1995 for carrying out "espionage activities" for the Tibetan government-in-exile. At the time, he was in Tibet studying traditional Tibetan music and dance, his mother said...
Holding signs that said, "Free Ngawang Choephel" and holding candles in Au Bon Pain cups, the demonstrators were herded off Holyoke Center property and onto the sidewalk by HUPD Sergeant Jim L. McCarthy, who was called in by Holyoke Center officials...
...Choephel was born in Tibet and raised by his mother in India where she fled in 1968, leaving her husband behind. Choephel, who is now 31, was a teacher of Tibetan instruments and music in India...
...egos that we wish to have your coverage. It is rather that we fear for the fate of Tibet; we worry for the safety of Ngawang Choephel, missing since the summer, but recently seen in Nyari prison by a fellow prisoner who had been repeatedly beaten and tortured. We fear for the six-year-old Panchen Lama (probably the world's youngest political prisoner) and his family, who all "disappeared" over a month...