Jamyang Thinley

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
འཇམ་དབྱངས་འཕྲིན་ལས།(Jiayang Chenle)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
62
Detention Year
2010s: 2011
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 29.7733333

Longitude: 106.513333

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Dzogang County(མཛོོ་སྒང་རྫོང་། )
Origin Province
  • Tibet Autonomous Region
Origin Prefecture
  • Chamdo (Ch: Qamdo) Prefecture
Date of Detention
2/07/2011
Occupation at Detention
Administrative
Type of Place of Current Detention
Detention centre
Detention Centre/Prison
Dzogang PSB Detention Centre
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
Description of event

After security officials detained 9 unnamed villagers living in “Bethong township” on June 30 for protesting mining activity on a mountain the villagers regard as sacred ; three village leaders traveled to Lhasa ; the TAR capital ; to express their objections ; according to an RFA source. On July 2 ; Zuogong county police who traveled to Lhasa reportedly took into custody the village leaders—Arsong (age 56) ; Tashi Namgyal (60) ; and Jamyang Trinle—and took them back to Zuogong. The report did not state whether officials released the men.

Prison Location
Status of Detention
Detained
Published
Published