China jails Buddhist nuns
Buddhist Channel Tuesday 19th July, 2011
-- Three Tibetan Buddhist nuns were sentenced to three years in prison by a court in south-western China's Sichuan province after they called for freedom and the return of the exiled Dalai Lama, a human rights group said on Friday.
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