Dorjee Tashi
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- རྡོ་རྗེ་བཀྲ་ཤིས།(Duoji Zhaxi)
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 37
- Detention Year
- 2000s: 2008
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 29.6526199
Longitude: 91.13775
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Lhasa(ལྷ་ས།)
- Origin Province
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Origin Prefecture
- Lhasa
- Date of Detention
- 10/07/2008
- Occupation at Detention
- Business
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- Prison
- Description of event
Dorje Tashi is a Tibetan private entrepreneur currently serving life imprisonment and has been held in detention since 10 July 2008 in Drapchi Prison near Lhasa city, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), in the Tibetan province of U-Tsang. He was detained on suspicion that he provided covert support to Tibetans participating in the Lhasa protests in 2008 that eventually led to the Tibet-wide uprising in the following years and for providing donations to Tibetan exile groups. The Lhasa Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Dorje Tashi to life imprisonment on 26 June 2010 for allegedly committing “loan fraud”. The trial was held in secret and his family members were not allowed to attend.
- Details of Violations Faced in Detention
The International Campaign for Tibet has obtained Dorjee Tashi’s testimony about the torture and ill-treatment he experienced during his pre-trial detention. The testimony was part of his 2013-14 petition for retrial.
The testimony covers four months of his pre-trial detention in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in 2008—before his transfer to a detention center in Mainling County (Chinese: Milin) in Nyingtri (Chinese: Linzhi)—and details torture practices such as beatings with electric batons, being cuffed to an iron bar and hung in the air, simulation of suffocation, pouring hot chili fluid through nostrils and sleep deprivation.
- Length of Sentence
- Life imprisonment
- Status of Detention
- Sentenced: Serving sentence
- Torture
- Torture
- Published
- Published