Three admit to murder of prominent Tibetan religious leader in China: lawyer

By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Three Tibetans in China have pleaded guilty to involvement in the death of a prominent religious leader and two other people, a lawyer representing the victims' families said on Friday, in Tibet's most closely watched murder case in decades. Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche was among the first religious leaders to teach Tibetan Buddhism to followers in the West. He was killed in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu with his nephew and another Tibetan last October. "They have admitted to the basic facts of the court's allegations," lawyer Xiang Chaoyang said of the three defendants. Read More http://ift.tt/1vsARPN