Dechen Thinley
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- འཕྲིན་ལས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།(Deqing Chenle)
- Gender
- Male
- Detention Year
- 2000s: 2009
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 32.9783399
Longitude: 98.1029399999999
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Sershul County(སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་།)
- Origin Province
- Sichuan Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 29/08/2009
- Occupation at Detention
- Religious
- Vulnerable Group at Detention
- Religious
- Type of Place of Current Detention
- Detention centre
- Detention Centre/Prison
- Sershul PSB Detention Centre
- Description of event
Dechen Trinaly Rinpoche ; of Chaktsa monastery ; was detained along with 19 other Tibetans following a protest in Sershul county ; Kardze TAP ; Sichuan province on August 28 ; 2009. Based on information provided by a Tibetan monk living in exile ; the Voice of Tibet radio service reported that on the eve of the opening of a new hall at Tashi Gephel ling monastery in Zakay township ; Sershul county ; Kartdze TAP ; a group of Tibetans removed a Chinese national flag ; wrote pro- Tibetan slogans on it after tearing it into pieces ; and replaced it with the Tibetan national flag. The next day ; August 28 ; 2009 ; the same source told Voice of Tibet that approximatley 1000 Tibetans gathered for the opening of the prayer hall ; at which point some of those who gathered started singing songs in praise of the Dalai Lama. Belongs to Chaktsa Monastery
- Prison Location
- Status of Detention
- Released: Upon completion of sentence
- Published
- Published