Gawa Wangchen Topgyal

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
དགའ་བ་དབང་ཆེན་སྟོབས་རྒྱལ།
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
15
Detention Year
2010s: 2010
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 32.2681399

Longitude: 100.33264

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Serthar County(གསེར་རྟ་རྫོང་།)
Origin Province
  • Sichuan Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
30/03/2010
Occupation at Detention
Religious
Vulnerable Group at Detention
  • Juvenile
  • Religious
Type of Place of Current Detention
Detention centre
Detention Centre/Prison
Serthar PSB Detention Centre
Description of event

Public security officials Detainedat least eight young monks and male laypersons (five of them named in the report) who staged a series of small, peaceful political protests in Seda (Serthar) county, Ganzi (Kardze) TAP, Sichuan province. Police Detainedmonks Tenzin Gyatso (age 16) and Gawa Wangchen Tobgyal (15) in the market square in the Seda county seat on March 30 when they displayed the Tibetan flag and shouted slogans calling for Tibetan independence, the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet, and human rights Belongs to Serthar Buddhist Institute (Larung Gar)

Prison Location
Status of Detention
Detained
Published
Published