Agya

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
ཨ་རྒྱ།
Gender
Male
Detention Year
1990s: 1994
Date of Detention
30/11/1994
Occupation at Detention
Religious
Vulnerable Group at Detention
  • Religious
Grounds for Detention
  • Counter revolutionary
Type of Place of Current Detention
Prison
Detention Centre/Prison
Qushui Prison
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
Description of event

In 1995 ; Dawa Gyaltsen ; along with his younger brother ; Nyima Dhondup ; a monk at Nagchu Shapten Monastery and two more monks ; Mazo and Agya ; from the same monastery ; were detained for distributing “political documents”. They were detained on charges of “Inciting counter-revolutionary propaganda” by Lhasa Public Security Bureau (PSB) personnel. Belongs to Nagchu Shapten Monastery

Length of Sentence
8 Years
Status of Detention
Released: Upon completion of sentence
Published
Published
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