Kelsang Tsering
POLITICAL PRISONER- Gender
- Male
- Detention Year
- 2010s: 2019
- Origin County Level
- Origin Province
- Gansu Province
- Date of Detention
- 18/10/2019
- Grounds for Detention
- Disrupting social order
- Inciting separatism
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- No Label
- Date of arrest
- Zhuoni Public Security
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
- Description of event
Kelsang Cheron was formally arrested on 18 October 2008, in Chone: (Ch: Zhuoni), Gansu Province located in the southeast of (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, for the crime he is accused of having committed 11 years ago during the Tibetan protests that began on 17 March 2008. Later he was transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution on 7 January 2020. he was accused of organizing the protest in Chone: (Ch: Zhuoni), Gansu Province, and convening a secret meeting on 17 March with over 60 Tibetan monks about smashing the public security bureau and county government office. And allegedly waving the Snow Lion flags and chanting slogans about independence. He was formally arrested on 18 October 2019 in Chone: (Ch: Zhuoni), Gansu Province located in the southeast of (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. And the case was transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution on 7 January 2020. (to be reviewed)
- Details of Violations Faced in Detention
Torture unknown
- Types of Human Rights Violations
- Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Assembly
- Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Association
- Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion
- Length of Sentence
- 11 years
- Torture
- Unknown
- Comments
Many of these Tibetan demonstrators are said to have served out their prison terms by this point, but Kelsang Tsering's whereabouts are still unknown. Kelsang Tsering is probably still imprisoned today.
- Origin Comments
- Chone: (Ch: Zhuoni), Gansu Province located in the southeast of (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Published
- Published