Lubum Dorjee

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
ཀླུ་འབུམ་རྡོ་རྗེ།
Gender
Male
Occupation at Detention
Cultural
Description of event

Detained in December 2019.

Authorities in northwestern China’s Gansu province have detained three Tibetans, including a painter of traditional religious art, apparently for sharing politically sensitive information on the social-media messaging platform WeChat. The three were taken into custody in Sangchu (in Chinese, Xiahe) county in Gansu’s Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture just days ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Dec. 10, 1989 awarding of

Types of Human Rights Violations
  • Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion
  • Right to privacy
Prison Location
Published
Published