Tsultrim
POLITICAL PRISONER- Gender
- Male
- Detention Year
- 2020s: 2025
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 32.9024499
Longitude: 101.70634
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Ngaba County(རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།)
- Origin Province
- Sichuan Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 1/02/2023
- Occupation at Detention
- Business
- Grounds for Detention
- Inciting separatism
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- Prison
- Description of event
In February 2023, Tsultrim from Tsaruma township in Kyungchu (Ch: Qiongxi) County, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, was detained for a second time for possessing a photo of the 14th Dalai Lama on his mobile phone. He was held until April and then sentenced to two years in prison by the Intermediate People’s Court of Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.
Prior to this, in July 2022, he was summoned and questioned by Chinese authorities for sharing a picture of the Dalai Lama on social media and having it on his phone. He was detained for two months until September.
In 2016, Tsultrim graduated from Northwestern Minzu University and was a self-employed businessman. He is currently serving his sentence in Yaknga prison, with no visitation allowed from family or friends. His exact age is unknown.
- Details of Violations Faced in Detention
He was beaten and went through so much suffering during his detention that he wished for his own death.
- 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
- Status of Detention
- Sentenced: Serving sentence
- Torture
- Torture
- Comments
Tsultrim has always been an intelligent young Tibetan and has advocated for the preservation of the Tibetan language.
- Origin Comments
- Tsaruma township in Kyungchu (Ch: Qiongxi) County, Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
- Published
- Published