Dhondup Wangchen, the Tibetan filmmaker "who is serving a six-year term for making [the] documentary ["Leaving Fear Behind"]," is reportedly in failing health after he contracted hepatitis B in police custody.  Making matters worse, Wangchen has been transfered to a "labor camp in Qinghai Province where conditions are thought to be especially harsh."

China's high-profile dissidents have a tendency to disappear, and Wangchen is no different.  Wangchen's "friends and family [are] increasingly dispirited by their inability to obtain any official information about his health of his whereabouts." 

This news comes as a Chinese court "handed down a suspended death sentence to a Tibetan man accused of taking part in the riots that ravaged the Tibetan capital more than two years ago."