On January 15, 2009, public security officials Detained Kirti Monastery monk Lobsang Kirti while he was allegedly in a photocopy shop. Kirti is located near the seat of Aba (Ngaba) county, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province. Lobsang Kirti was photocopying leaflets urging locals to defy an order by local authorities to conduct an important religious festival (Monlam) ahead of its traditional time. Tibetans celebrate Monlam shortly after the Tibetan lunar New Year (Losar), but some Tibetans had decided to forego (“boycott”) celebrating Losar in 2009 to express sadness about Tibetans killed and Detained in the 2008 protests. Lobsang Kirti had written newspaper and journal articles and was a member of the board of a Kirti Monastery publication, Gangtse Metog. Information is not available about his place of detention or charges, if any, against him. Belongs to Kirti Monastery