Ngawang Gyatso

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
ངག་དབང་རྒྱ་མཚོ།(Awang Jiacuo)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
41
Detention Year
2010s: 2013
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
10/03/2013
Occupation at Detention
Civil society
Type of Place of Current Detention
Detention centre
Detention Centre/Prison
Sershul PSB Detention Centre
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
Description of event

According to information received by TCHRD ; at around 11 am (local time) on 10 March 2013 ; three Tibetan monks from Ganden Samten Dhargyeling Monastery in Dzachuka area in Sershul County staged a protest march in the County town and got detained along with two other lay Tibetan men who tried to persuade the monks from protesting for fear of arrest. The source told TCHRD that the monks shouted slogans for “freedom ; democracy ; and the need for a Middle Way approach to solve the Tibet issue.” They carried a huge flag emblazoned with a portrait of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Prison Location
Status of Detention
Detained
Published
Published