The ICT reported on August 6, 2019 that 36-year old Lobsang Dorje, a Tibetan monk from the influential Kirti monastery was sentenced to three years in prison on September 3 this week after being arrested in his room in mid-July 2018. This is the second prison sentence for Lobsang Dorje in about a decade. His first imprisonment was in 2008 for refusing to comply with Chinese officials running a “patriotic education” campaign at his monastery, located in   (Chinese: Aba) in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, in the Tibetan area of Amdo.