Kunchok Tsultrim

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
དཀོན་མཆོག་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས།(Gongque Cichen)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
31
Detention Year
2010s: 2011
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 32.9024499

Longitude: 101.70634

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Ngaba County(རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།)
Origin Province
  • Sichuan Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
28/02/2011
Occupation at Detention
Religious
Vulnerable Group at Detention
  • Religious
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
Description of event

Public Security Bureau officials detained Kirti Monastery monk KunchoK Tsultrim on an unspecified date “after March 16 ; ” 2011 ; when Kirti monk Phuntsok committed self-immolation near the monastery ; located in Aba (Ngaba) county. On April 11 ; security officials detained Kirti monk Lobsang Dargye. Both detentions reportedly took place at Kirti during a crackdown involving “patriotic education” following the self-immolation. The Aba (Ngaba) County People’s Court sentenced both monks to three years in prison: Lobsang Dargye on May 2 and Kunchok Tsultrim in early May Belongs to Kirti Monastery

Length of Sentence
3 Years
Prison Location
Status of Detention
Sentenced: Sentence completed-no news on release
Published
Published