Tenzin Gelek
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- བསྟན་འཛིན་དགེ་ལེགས།
- Prisoner image
- Does it have an image?
- Yes
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 18
- Detention Year
- 2010s: 2018
- 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
- 6/09/2018
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Juvenile
- Religious
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Local Security Force
- Description of event
Tenzin Gelek, a monk from the local Kirti Monastery, was arrested on 6 September by local security forces after he carried out a lone protest calling for “Freedom in Tibet”. His current whereabouts and condition remain unknown. Belongs to Kirti Monastery
- Status of Detention
- Detained
- Comments
Prior to the protest, he had posted two blogposts on his WeChat account that were critical of Chinese rule in Tibet. Both posts titled, ‘Do You Think I Could Endure to Live?’ and ‘To the Communist Party of China’, condemn the insidious erosion of Tibetan identity under Chinese rule and denounces the unequal relationship between China and Tibet. He has authored many other blogposts using the pseudonym ‘Sarin’.
- Published
- Published
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