Samdup Gyatso
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- བསམ་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།(Sanzhu Jiacuo)
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 28
- Detention Year
- 2000s: 2009
- Origin County Level
- Date of Detention
- 1/07/2009
- Occupation at Detention
- Civil society
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- Detention centre
- Detention Centre/Prison
- Chushur PSB Detention Centre
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
- Description of event
Samdup Gyatso staged a lone protest carrying banned Tibetan national flag in hand and had another stitched on the back of his shirt and shouted slogans calling for the “quick return of the exiled Tibetan leader to Tibet ; ” “release Panchen Lama” and “proper allocation and delivery of earthquake relief received from international donors to the much needed nomadic communities in Kyegudo.” He was immediately detained by PSB officials and whisked off in a police vehicle.
- Status of Detention
- Released: Upon completion of sentence
- Comments
In March 2008 ; he returned to Tibet via Tibet-Nepal border of Dram and was detained for carrying several books of speeches by the Dalai Lama and subsequently detained at Shigatse PSB Detention Centre for a month. He was later shifted to Drapchi Prison where he spent next six months. He went back to his hometown after his release from prison in October 2008.
- Published
- Published