Rongwo Gendun Lhundup
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- རོང་བོ་དགེ་འདུན་ལྷུན་གྲུབ།
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 47
- Detention Year
- 2020s: 2022
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 35.5167
Longitude: 102.0167
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Rebkong County(རེབ་ཀོང་རྫོང་།)
- Origin Province
- Qinghai Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Malho (Ch: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 2/12/2020
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Description of event
Tibetan writer Rongwo Gendun Lhundup, 48, has been sentenced to four years in prison on the trumped-up charge of “inciting separatism”. The writer was sentenced on 1 December 2021 by the Xining Intermediate People’s Court. In addition to four years of fixed-term imprisonment, he was sentenced to two years of “deprivation of political rights”.
Rongwo Gendun Lhundup has been detained and interrogated on several occasions by Chinese security officials.Writing under the pseudonym ‘Lhamkok’ (Eng: Shoe), Rongwo Gendun Lhundup was detained by Chinese security officers on 11 November 2020 from Rongwo Monastery in Rebkong (Ch: Tongren) City, Malho (Ch: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province.
Since his detention, he had been held in an undisclosed location for almost two years.
- Sentencing Court
- Xining Intermediate People's Court
- Length of Sentence
- 4 years
- Status of Detention
- Released: Upon completion of sentence
- Comments
On 9 November 2024, a respected Tibetan writer and intellectual, Rongwo Gendun Lhundup was released from a Chinese prison. Despite being released, he is placed under heavy surveillance and restrictions.
- Published
- Published