Sonam Lhundup

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
བསོད་ནམས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ།(Suonan Longzhu)
Gender
Male
Detention Year
2010s: 2012
Origin County Level
Origin County Geolocation

Latitude: 31.3924

Longitude: 100.6766

Origin County Geolocation (linked POLITICAL PRISONER)
Drango County(བྲག་མགོ་རྫོང་། )
Origin Province
  • Sichuan Province
Origin Prefecture
  • Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Date of Detention
23/01/2012
Occupation at Detention
Civil society
Grounds for Detention
  • Disrupting social order
Description of event

On 23 January 2012, Sonam along with 16 others was detained for participating in protests against Communist rule in Drango (Ch: Luhuo) County, Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Six people died during the violence; scores more were wounded and injured. He was sentenced on 26 April 2012, the court did not reveal the charges but the sentences range from nine years to life in prison. Sonam Lhundup was sentenced to life in prison.

Sentencing Court
Sichuan Intermediate People's Court
Length of Sentence
Life imprisonment
Status of Detention
Sentenced: Serving sentence
Comments

The Chinese police opened gunfire on the peaceful demostration and killed atleast 2 and as many as six

Published
Published