Soepa

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
བཟོད་པ།(Suoba)
Gender
Male
Detention Year
2010s: 2017
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 35.1991

Longitude: 102.5086

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Sangchu County(བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་། )
Origin Province
  • Gansu Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Kanlho (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
2/05/2017
Occupation at Detention
Civil society
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Police
Description of event

Authorities in Gansu province have detained the parents of a Tibetan self-immolation protester after briefly holding and then releasing them once before. Soepa and Drolma Tso ; the father and mother of 16-year-old student Chagdor Kyab who self-immolated on May 2 ; had been detained.

Status of Detention
Detained
Comments

They were detained before on 2 may along with their daughter because of their son’s self-immolation protest on the same date but were release shortly after.

Published
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