Dorje Tashi is a Tibetan private entrepreneur currently serving life imprisonment and held in detention since 10 July 2008 in Chushur Prison near Lhasa city, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), in the Tibetan province of U-Tsang. He was detained on the suspicion that he provided covert support to Tibetans participating in the Lhasa protests in 2008 that eventually led to the Tibet-wide uprising in the following years and for providing donations to Tibetan exile groups. The Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Dorje Tashi to life imprisonment on 26 June 2010 for allegedly committing “loan fraud”. The trial was held in secret and his family members were not allowed to attend.