Lobsang Thapkhey
POLITICAL PRISONER- Prisoner image
- Does it have an image?
- Yes
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 56
- 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
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Religious
- Grounds for Detention
- Inciting separatism
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- Prison
- Date of arrest
- Deyang(德阳) Prison in Huang Xu Town in Deyang City, Sichuan Province.
- Description of event
Lobsang Thapkhey, a former librarian at Kirti Monastery in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo, was sentenced to three years, for merely attempting to import and distribute religious and cultural books from India to Tibet and for engaging in the Tibetan Buddhist practice of making financial offerings to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Kirti Rinpoche. Belongs to Kirti Monastery
- Details of Violations Faced in Detention
Torture unknown
- Types of Human Rights Violations
- Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief
- Length of Sentence
- 3 years
- Status of Detention
- Sentenced: Serving sentence
- Torture
- Unknown
- Comments
Lobsang Thapkhey, age 56, is the son of Khadon (father) and Jhoka (mother). He has made significant contributions to the Kirti Monastery Library by importing a diverse collection of books.
Before his arrest, he had been summoned to the Ngaba police station and detained for several days on multiple occasions. Between 2017 and 2018, when a lama named Chakdor from Kirti Monastery passed away, Lobsang Thapkhey was detained and interrogated for several days at the Ngaba County police station for sending 2000 Chinese yuan as a prayer offering to the Dalai Lama, Kirti Rinpoche and other lamas in India.
- Origin Comments
- Kirti Monastery in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo
- Published
- Published