Mengyal

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
སྨན་རྒྱལ།
Gender
Male
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
20/10/2013
Type of Place of Current Detention
Detention centre
Detention Centre/Prison
Diru PSB Detention Centre
Responsible for arrest and detention
  • People's Armed Police (PAP)
  • Police
Description of event

On October 19 ; more than 100 villagers reportedly converged on the Sangchu government office to to protest the detention of Tenzin Rangdol. On October 20 ; police and PAP detained 10 protesters and ; including kalsang Namdol ; who may have been subsequently released. Protesters called on officials to stop labeling them as "splittists ; " and said "the unjust legal system and authoritarian abuse of power" promoted separatism.

Prison Location
Status of Detention
Released: Upon completion of sentence
Published
Published
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