Dharamshala, Aug. 16 -- The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Tibetan government-in-exile, has profiled Tibetan political prisoner Jamyang Lekshay, highlighting his imprisonment for opposing China's dam construction in Tibet.

In a post on X, the CTA stated that Abbot Jamyang Lekshay, the head of Yena Monastery in Derge, was arrested in February 2024 after joining hundreds of Tibetans in a peaceful demonstration against the Chinese-built Kamtok Dam.

The CTA noted that Lekshay was secretly sentenced to four years in prison on charges linked to the protest. A video from the demonstration showed him raising both thumbs in the traditional Tibetan gesture of begging, as he and fellow monks openly wept and pleaded with visiting Chinese...