Kunchok Dakpa

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
དཀོན་མཆོག་གྲགས་པ།(Gongque Zhaba)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
25
Detention Year
2010s: 2013
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 31.4778499

Longitude: 93.6812999

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Diru County(འབྲི་རུ་རྫོང་།)
Origin Province
  • Tibet Autonomous Region
Origin Prefecture
  • Nagchu (Ch: Naqu) Prefecture
Date of Detention
30/11/2013
Type of Place of Current Detention
Detention centre
Detention Centre/Prison
Diru PSB Detention Centre
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
Description of event

Detained for allegedly participating in or leading a large-scale ; publicly supported protest in May 2013 against Chinese mining operations at Ngalha Dzamba ; a mountain locals regard as sacred

Prison Location
Comments

In December 2013 or January 2014 ; authorities handed his body over to his family and ordered them not to discuss the death with anyone

Published
Published
Is the Prisoner Deceased?
Yes