(Jigme Guri)
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- འཇིགས་མེད་རྒྱ་མཚོ།(Jinmei Jiaco)
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 45
- Detention Year
- 2010s: 2011
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 35.1991
Longitude: 102.5086
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Sangchu County(བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་། )
- Origin Province
- Gansu Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Kanlho (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 20/08/2011
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Religious
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- Prison
- Detention Centre/Prison
- Lanzhou Prison
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Police
- Description of event
In August 2011 ; he was detained for the fourth time He was arbitrarily detained by around 40 police officers from a hotel room in Tsoe (Ch: Hezuo) city ; Kanlho (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ; Gansu Province. Monks and students who were at the hotel asked why Jigme Gyatso was being detained but the police refused to answer and denied that Jigme Gyatso was in the room ; even though he could be heard speaking and seen through the windows. The next day ; 50 police officers searched his room in Labrang Monastery and took his computer ; CDs ; and photos of the Dalai Lama. Belongs to Labrang Tashikyil Monastery
- Length of Sentence
- 5 Years
- Comments
Jigme Gyatso had been barred from wearing his monastic robes or joining his monastery. Sources said this explicit order came from the prison authorities at Lanzhou Prison.
- Published
- Published
- Is the Prisoner Deceased?
- Yes