On 26 March, a Tibetan monk named Pema was arbitrarily detained and subjected to incommunicado detention by the local Public Security Bureau Officers for staging a peaceful solo protest by holding a portrait of the Dalai Lama on the stretch of a road known to the local Tibetans as ‘martyrs road’ in Ngaba County. Local witnesses reported hearing Pema shouting slogans calling for the"Return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet" and "Religious Freedom in Tibet," among others.