BEIJING — A leading Tibetan environmentalist has been jailed for subversion, the third such verdict amid an apparent crackdown on intellectuals in the Himalayan region, activists said Sunday.
Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced to five years in prison on Saturday for attempting to incite subversion by a court in Tibet's Chamdo region, poet and rights activist Woeser said on her blog.
The verdict comes after his brother Karma Samdrup, 42, a noted art and antique collector and philanthropist, was sentenced by a court in neighbouring Xinjiang late last month to 15 years for "grave-robbing".
"These sentences are causing fear among a lot of Tibetan intellectuals," Woeser told AFP while declining to comment further on the verdict due to concerns over possible government reprisals.
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