Wangchuk
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- དབང་ཕྱུག་(Wangxiu)
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 22
- Detention Year
- 2000s: 2008
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 29.6868
Longitude: 98.45
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Markham County(སྨར་ཁམས་རྫོང་། )
- Origin Province
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Origin Prefecture
- Chamdo (Ch: Qamdo) Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 12/05/2008
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Religious
- Grounds for Detention
- Endangering state security
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- Detention centre
- Detention Centre/Prison
- Markham PSB Detention Centre
- Description of event
The Chinese authorities have been conducting intense “Patriotic re-education” campaign in Woeser and Khenpa Lungpa Monasteries since the beginning of April 2008. Sources told TCHRD that on 10 May 2008 ; the Chinese “work team” entered the monasteries to conduct intense and rigorous “Patriotic re-education” campaign which resulted in a bitter and heated arguments between the annoyed monks and the Chinese authorities. However ; none of the monks signed off the official documents and nor did they write essays denouncing the Dalai Lama. In response to the monks’ adamant refusal ; the Chinese authorities detained them. On 12 May 2008 ; 10 monks of Khenpa Lungpa Monastery were detained. Similarly on 13 May 2008 ; 6 monks of Woeser Monastery were also detained. Two lay TARans were later detained on 14 May 2008. Belongs to Khenpa Lungpa Monastery
- Prison Location
- Status of Detention
- Released: Upon completion of sentence
- Published
- Published
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