Dhondup Wangchen

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
དོན་གྲུབ་དབང་ཆེན།(Dongzhu Wangqing)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
33
Detention Year
2000s: 2008
Origin County Level
  • Bayan Town ( བཱ་ཡན་གྲོང་རྡལ།)
Origin Province
  • Qinghai Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Hualong Hui Autonomous County, Haidong,
Date of Detention
26/03/2008
Occupation at Detention
Cultural
Type of Place of Current Detention
Prison
Detention Centre/Prison
Qinghai Women's Prison
Description of event

Dhondup Wangchen was detained by the Chinese authorities in March 2008 for shooting the 25-minute documentary film called Jigdral. The documentary is based on 35 hours of footages and 108 interviews that Dhondup Wangchen and his assistant ; Golog Jigme ; conducted over five months in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Length of Sentence
6 Years
Prison Location
  • Qinghai Province
Status of Detention
Released: Upon completion of sentence
Published
Published