Kunga Choezom

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
ཀུན་དགའ་ཆོས་འཛོམས།(Gongga Quezong)
Gender
Female
Age at Detention
22
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
28/06/2011
Occupation at Detention
Religious
Type of Place of Current Detention
Detention centre
Detention Centre/Prison
Kardze PSB Detention Centre
Description of event

PSB detained a total of seven nuns from a local nunnery for staging peaceful political protests. Each report named the nunnery differently: RFA ; Gyemadra; ICT ; Gyematag; and TCHRD ; Mandrag. Nuns Kunga Choezom and Dekyi Lhamo protested on June 28 ; RFA reported ; scattering leaflets and shouting slogans calling for the Dalai Lama’s return and Tibetan freedom.

Status of Detention
Detained
Published
Published
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