A-nya Sengdra
POLITICAL PRISONER- Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
- ཨ་ཉ་སེང་སྒྲ།
- Prisoner image
- Does it have an image?
- Yes
- Gender
- Male
- Detention Year
- 2010s: 2018
- Origin County Level
- Origin County Geolocation
Latitude: 33.9692099
Longitude: 99.90075
- Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
- Gade County(དགའ་བདེ་རྫོང་། )
- Origin Province
- Qinghai Province
- Origin Prefecture
- Golok (Ch: Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
- Date of Detention
- 4/09/2018
- Occupation at Detention
- Civil society
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Public Security Bureau Officials (PSB)
- Description of event
Mr A-nya Sengdra, 47, was beaten up and detained on 4 September 2018 from the highway intersection in Golok TAP by Gade County Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers and taken to the PSB detention centre in Drotsang (Ch: Ledu) County, Tsoshar (Ch: Haidong) Prefecture.
He was sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment on 6 December 2019 by the Gade (Chinese: Gande) County court in Golog (Guoluo), Qinghai province in the Tibetan area of Amdo, on charges of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
- Types of Human Rights Violations
- Civil and Political Rights Violations: Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion
- Prison Location
- Status of Detention
- Released: Upon completion of sentence
- Consequences of Detention After Release
A-nya Sengdra was released on 7 February 2026, after serving more than seven years in Menyuan Prison in Qinghai Province.
Sourced informed TCHRD that he is in poor health following his release. He reportedly suffers from kidney disease, severe deterioration of his eyesight, and high blood pressure.
- Published
- Published