A court in China’s western Sichuan province sentenced a Tibetan man to death in connection with

A court in China’s western Sichuan province sentenced a Tibetan man to death in connection with the self-immolation of his wife, accusing him of killing her and burning her body to cover up his crime, in a conviction condemned by a rights group as a part of Beijing’s "smear campaign" against dissidents.
Drolma Kyab, 32, was sentenced by the Ngaba Intermediate People’s Court about five months after his wife, Konchog Wangmo, 29, set herself ablaze in Dzoege (in Chinese, Ruo’ergai) county in Sichuan’s Ngaba (Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to protest Chinese rule in Tibetan-populated areas, according to local sources.
The sources, citing contacts in the region, had told RFA’s Tibetan Services then that Kyab was detained the day after Konchog Wangmo self-immolated on March 13 when he refused to comply with an order by Chinese authorities who wanted to blame the burning on a domestic argument.
Tibetan exile sources, reacting to the death sentence, expressed doubt as to Drolma Kyab’s guilt, describing the action as a “hardening” of Beijing’s approach to containing the Tibetan self-immolation protests.
The Dharamsala, India-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) suggested Chinese authorities may have used torture to extract confessions from Drolma Kyab.