Thinley Tsekar

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
འཕྲིན་ལས་ཚེ་སྐར།
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
22
Detention Year
2010s: 2013
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 31.4778499

Longitude: 93.6812999

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Diru County(འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།)
Origin Province
  • Tibet Autonomous Region
Origin Prefecture
  • Nagchu (Ch: Naqu) Prefecture
Date of Detention
20/11/2013
Occupation at Detention
Cultural
Grounds for Detention
  • Inciting separatism
Date of arrest
unsure
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
Description of event

He was detained on 20 November 2013 when he visited the local driving class to get his driver's license. Sources with contacts in Diru said he was detained because he had distributed a DVD that conatined songs he had sung on Tibetan identity ; culture and language.

Sentencing Court
Biru County People's Court
Length of Sentence
9 Years
Prison Location
Status of Detention
Sentenced: Serving sentence
Published
Published