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Tsering Samdup, ex- political prisoner, condemned to 6 years imprisonments at Drapchi, Lhasa. . Today he works for and is a member of the Gu Chu Sum Association in Dharamsala, India. ‚" I was a Tibetan monk. When I was 19 I took part in a peaceful demonstration near the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa where uniformed and plain clothes police started to beat us with sticks and truncheons. We were taken to the first detention centre at Gutsa and then to Drapchi. I endured daily interrogations, torture, was severely beaten and electric shocks were applied to my whole body.‚Äù (Samdup has tears in his eyes and clenches his fists)‚Ķ.many other detainees couldn‚Äôt stand this, nine of them died and others with serious wounds were sent home to their families so the authorities wouldn‚Äôt be responsible for their deaths. This was common practice by the Chinese police to avoid getting their hands dirty. He arrived in Dharamsala in 2005.