Thupten Gyatso

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།(Tudan Jiacuo)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
19
Detention Year
2000s: 2008
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 30.979

Longitude: 101.1239

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Tawu County(རྟ་བོ་རྫོང་། )
Origin Province
  • Sichuan Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
6/06/2008
Occupation at Detention
Religious
Vulnerable Group at Detention
  • Religious
Type of Place of Current Detention
Prison
Detention Centre/Prison
Kardze Prison
Description of event

on 6 June 2008 ; three monks belonging to different monasteries in Drango County ; Kardze “TAP” staged a peaceful protest in front of the county government headquarters ; according to confirmed information received by the Centre. The three monks unidentified as Tsewang Dakpa ; 22 years old from Jangtha Township ; Drango County ; Kardze “TAP” ; Thupten Gyatso(age unknown) from Tawu County ; Kardze “TAP” and Jangsem Nyima ; 22 years old from Dzatoe County ; Jyekundo (Ch: Yushu/Jiegu) “TAP” Qinghai Province staged a peaceful protest calling for the “quick return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet” and “Freedom in Tibet” Belongs to Serthar Buddhist Institute (Larung Gar)

Length of Sentence
4 Years
Status of Detention
Released: Upon completion of sentence
Published
Published
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