Tenzin Woeser
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- བསྟན་འཛིན་འོད་ཟེར།
- Prisoner image
- Does it have an image?
- Yes
- Gender
- Male
- Age at Detention
- 14
- Detention Year
- 1990s: 1996
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 32.9335
Longitude: 100.737
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Pema County(པདྨ་རྫོང་། )
- Origin Province
- Qinghai Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Golok (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 30/11/1996
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Juvenile
- Religious
- Grounds for Detention
- Disrupting social order
- Description of event
In 1997, Woeser was 14 when he joined his cousin Dothuk and some other monks in pasting leaflets calling for Tibetan independence in the county town. The other unknown monks hailed from Nyagrong (Ch: Xinlong) County in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province who had come to Pema County for religious education. Woeser was subsequently detained and sentenced to five years for engaging in political activity, his prison release document shows. Belongs to Do Drubchen Gon Sangchen Ngodup Palwar Ling Monastery.
- Length of Sentence
- 5 years
- Status of Detention
- Detained
- Comments
Due to his minor age, he was subjected to ‘thought reform’ and released after six months’ detention. Upon his release, he was ordered to report every month to the County Public Security Bureau office and barred from returning to his monastery.
- Published
- Published