Rikchung

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
རིག་ཆུང་།(Reqiong)
Gender
Male
Detention Year
2010s: 2014
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 30.979

Longitude: 101.1239

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Tawu County(རྟ་བོ་རྫོང་། )
Origin Province
  • Sichuan Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
15/04/2014
Occupation at Detention
Business
Grounds for Detention
  • Disrupting social order
Type of Place of Current Detention
Detention centre
Description of event

Rikchung was Detained as he was suspected of taking photos of his relative Thinley Namgyal, 32, burning to death in Khangsar township in Tawu (in Chinese, Daofu) county in Sichuan’s Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture on April 15.

Prison Location
Status of Detention
Detained
Published
Published