Sonam Yangchen
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- བསོད་ནམས་དབྱངས་ཅན།(Suonan Yangjian)
- Gender
- Female
- Detention Year
- 2000s: 2009
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 31.6229999
Longitude: 99.99266
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Kardze County(དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་། )
- Origin Province
- Sichuan Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 24/03/2009
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Religious
- Date of arrest
- unsure
- Description of event
Yangkyi Dolma and Sonam Yangchen of Lamdrag (earlier reported as Dragkar) Nunnery in Kardze County ; Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture” (TAP) ; Sichuan Province ; staged a peaceful protest at the Kardze County main market square on 24 March 2009. The protest was staged at around 3 pm (Beijing Standard time) shouting slogans calling for the “swift return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet ; ” “human rights for Tibetans in Tibet ; ” and “religious freedom in Tibet.” Both nuns were severely beaten by the security forces at the site of the demonstration. Belongs to Lamdrag Nunnery
- Length of Sentence
- 3 Years
- Prison Location
- Status of Detention
- Sentenced: Sentence completed-no news on release
- Published
- Published
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