Lobsang Rinchen

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
བློ་བཟང་རིན་ཆེན།(Luosang Renqing)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
21
Detention Year
2010s: 2011
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
9/05/2011
Occupation at Detention
Religious
Vulnerable Group at Detention
  • Religious
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
  • State Security Bureau
Description of event

On May 9 ; 2011 ; public security and state security officials detained monk Lobsang Rinchen from his residence at Kirti Monastery. The detention took place during a crackdown at Kirti following the March 16 ; 2011 ; self-immolation of monk Phuntsok on the third anniversary of a large-scale protest in Aba in 2008 that included some Tibetan rioting and resulted in PSB officials and PAP opening fire and allegedly killing at least 10 Tibetans. Belongs to Kirti Monastery

Prison Location
Status of Detention
Detained
Published
Published