He was a young monk at Kirti monastery ; situated on the outskirts of Ngaba ; a town in today’s Sichuan province which incorporates large areas of the historical Tibetan provinces of Amdo and Kham. He was detained on March 28 ; 2008 ; 18 days after the start of the protests in the region and right in the middle of the crushing security crackdown that followed in which police shootings of peaceful protesters were reported to have killed as many as 20 Tibetans and wounded hundreds more. Tsering was charged with ‘leaking state secrets to forein countries’ by a Chinese Court in Barkham county and given a nine year prison sentence for his alleged act of sharing news about the crackdown on his monastery with the outside world. Belongs to Kirti Monastery