Jampa Wangchuk

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
བྱམས་པ་དབང་ཕྱུག་(Jiangbai Wangqui)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
35
Detention Year
2010s: 2011
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 31.6229999

Longitude: 99.99266

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Kardze County(དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་། )
Origin Province
  • Sichuan Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
5/07/2011
Occupation at Detention
Religious
Vulnerable Group at Detention
  • Religious
Type of Place of Current Detention
Detention centre
Detention Centre/Prison
Kardze PSB Detention Centre
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
Description of event

Local Public security bureau officials arrived at Dargye Monastery. The police allegedly “interrogated” some of the monks ; focusing especially on monks who previously had studied for a time at Tibetan Buddhist monasteries located in India and then returned to Dargye Monastery. As a result of the interrogation ; police detained Dargye monks Lobsang Choejor (age 35) and Jampa Wangchug (46) and took them to the Ganzi County PSB Detention Center. Both monks had gone to India sometime in the 1990s and spent approximately nine years studying at a prominent monastery that Tibetans reestablished in India after 1960 Belongs to Dargye Monastery

Status of Detention
Detained
Published
Published