Apho Ghaka
POLITICAL PRISONER- Does it have an image?
- No
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 18
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 31.1407299
Longitude: 97.1722499999999
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Chamdo County(ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་། )
- Origin Province
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Origin Prefecture
- Chamdo (Ch: Qamdo) Prefecture
- Occupation at Detention
- Unknown
- Date of arrest
- 00/11/1960
- Detention Centre/Prison
- Powo Tramo
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- County level Party Cadres
- Description of event
Apho Ghaka (also known as Phagchuk Gonpo), born in 1942 in Bher, Chamdo, was a Tibetan political prisoner and prominent participant in the resistance against Chinese forces. Following a clash with Chinese troops in Chamdo, he was arrested in 1960, detained without trial, and later sentenced to life imprisonment in 1963. He endured nineteen years of incarceration in prisons across the Powo region. Released in 1979, he continued his political commitment in exile, working with the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in Dharamsala.
- Violations Faced in Detention
- Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: Forced Labor
- Details of Violations Faced in Detention
He spent nineteen years incarcerated in prisons across the Powo region, where he was subjected to forced labor in carpentry, tailoring, and agriculture, enduring severe conditions under constant surveillance.
- Date of sentence
- 1963
- Length of Sentence
- Life imprisonment. (But served 19years)
- Prison Location
- Date of release
- 1979
- Type of Sources
- Primary: TCHRD field sources
- Torture
- Unknown
- Published
- Published