Dawa Yangzom
POLITICAL PRISONER- Does it have an image?
- No
- Gender
- Female
- Age at Detention
- 27
- Origin County Level
- Lhoka Prefecture
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 29.24
Longitude: 91.77
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Lhoka Prefecture
- Origin Prefecture
- Lhoka (Ch: Shannan) Prefecture, Tibetan Autonomous Region
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Religious
- Date of arrest
- 14/09/1990
- Detention Centre/Prison
- Gutsa PSB Detention Centre
- Description of event
Dawa Yangzom, a former nun of Shungseb Nunnery, was born in 1964 in Gang Village, Dranang County, Lhokha, southwest of Lhasa. She attended her village primary school for approximately one year between the ages of seven and eight, after which the school was closed for reasons unknown to her. She then remained in her village, assisting her parents with agricultural work.
In 1989, at the age of twenty-four, she joined Shungseb Nunnery in Chushur Dzong, Lhasa.
Dawa Yangzom was released on 13 March 1993, together with Ngawang Kyizom, another nun arrested in the same protest. Later that year, she fled to India and arrived in Dharamsala on 20 November 1993.
- Violations Faced in Detention
- Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: Solitary Confinement
- Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: Use of Tiger Chairs
- Details of Violations Faced in Detention
On 14 September 1990, she was arrested for shouting “Free Tibet” during a public demonstration. Throughout her arrest, interrogation, and imprisonment, she was subjected to severe torture, solitary confinement, and repeated beatings, and she witnessed similar abuse inflicted on other detainees.
- Types of Human Rights Violations
- Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion
- Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief
- Length of Sentence
- 2 years and 6 months
- Prison Location
- Date of release
- 13/03/1993
- Type of Sources
- Primary: TCHRD field sources
- Torture
- Torture
- Published
- Published