Sonam Namgyal

POLITICAL PRISONER
Name in Tibetan and Pinyin
བསོད་ནམས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ།(Suonan Nanjia)
Gender
Male
Age at Detention
26
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
Religious
Grounds for Detention
  • Inciting separatism
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

On March 10 ; 2013 ; the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising in Lhasa ; security officials detained monks Lobsang Samten (31) and Sonam Namgyal (26) and Thupten Gelek (29) after they staged a political protest during which they carried a white banner with a large image of the Dalai Lama. The monks shouted slogans calling for freedom and democracy ; and a "Middle-Way Approach to solve TIbet issue." While detaining the monks ; the police also detained onlookers Lobsang Kalsang and Ngawang Gyatso for reportedly shouting at police ; or trying to "peacefully" resolve the matter.

Prison Location
Status of Detention
Detained
Published
Published
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