Tsewang Kyab

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
ཚེ་དབང་སྐྱབས།(Ciwang Jia)
Gender
Male
Detention Year
2010s: 2016
Origin County Level
  • Marthang County (མར་ཐང་རྫོང་།)
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 31.2

Longitude: 98.8167

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Marthang County (མར་ཐང་རྫོང་།)
Origin Province
  • Sichuan Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
3/06/2016
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • Military
  • Police
Description of event

Anti-mining protest in Amchok

Types of Human Rights Violations
  • Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Association
  • Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion
Status of Detention
Detained
Comments

Rampant open-pit mining activities conducted for more than a decade by the Chinese authorities at Tibet’s sacred Gong Ngon Lari Soul Mountain have faced renewed and sustained protests from local Tibetans living in Amchok (Ch: Amuqu) Township in Sangchu (Ch: Xiahe) County ; Kanlho (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ; Gansu Province.

Published
Published
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