Tsering Tsomo
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- ཚེ་རིང་མཚོ་མོ།(Cireng Cuomo)
- Gender
- Female
- Age at Detention
- 27
- Detention Year
- 2000s: 2008
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 31.3924
Longitude: 100.6766
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Drango County(བྲག་མགོ་རྫོང་། )
- Origin Province
- Sichuan Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 8/06/2008
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Religious
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- Detention centre
- Detention Centre/Prison
- Drango PSB Detention Centre
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
- Description of event
On 8 June 2008 ; at around 9:00 AM (Beijing Standard Time) ; Tsering Tsomo ; 27 years old nun of SamtenLing Nunnery a.k.a Watak Nunnery ; originally from Chakra Village ; Drango County (Ch: Luhuo Xian) Kardze “Tibet Autonomous Prefecture” (‘TAP’) staged a peaceful solo protest in Drango County by raising Pro-Tibet slogans and distributing pamphlets calling for “swift return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet” and “freedom in Tibet” among the people. After a short stint of her solo protest ; Tsering Tsomo was known to have been surrounded by the security forces and was severely beaten and tortured by pounding her with iron rods ; kicked and punched her indiscriminately. The county PSB officials later took her away to the county Detention Centre for further questioning. Belongs to Samtenling Nunnery
- Length of Sentence
- 2 Years
- Prison Location
- Status of Detention
- Released: Upon completion of sentence
- Published
- Published