London, February 10, 1995. According to Tibet Information Network, "The leading dissident in Tibet, who has served 27 years in prison for supporting Tibetan independence, has openly criticised the Chinese authorities and denied that he has 'recognised his guilt'. It is the first known time that a leading Tibetan figure has publicly declared dissident views while still inside Tibet. The statement was published in a UN report issued this week, which called on China to improve its laws on religious freedom and to release religious believers imprisoned for their political or religious views. Yulo Dawa Tsering, a 65 year old former abbot and theologian and Tibet's most senior prisoner of conscience, was speaking only three weeks after being conditionally released from a 7 year stint in prison. Yulo completed a separate 20 year sentence for a similar offence in 1979".