Kalsang Gyatso
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- སྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ།(Gesang Jiacuo)
- Gender
- Male
- Detention Year
- 2010s: 2016
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 33.62
Longitude: 102.94
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Dzoege County(མཛོད་དགེ་རྫོང་། )
- Origin Province
- Sichuan Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 29/02/2016
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Police
- Description of event
On 24 March ; a group of local Chinese police arrived at Sonam Tso’s home and demanded her family to hand over the body. In order to ensure that Sonam Tso received proper funeral rites ; her family responded that they had already cremated the body and that there was nothing to hand over. The same day the family laid Sonam Tso to rest following Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Local Chinese police however interrogated and detained the deceased’s relative Tsultrim for eight days and destroyed all images and information he had collected on his phone about Sonam Tso’s self-immolation. The deceased’s husband Kelsang Gyatso was also intrerrogated several times. Their current condition and whereabouts remain unknown.
- Status of Detention
- Detained
- Comments
Husband of self immolator Sonam tso who self immolated herself on 23-03-2016
- Published
- Published
- Related Prisoners of same event