Lundup
Detentions- Person
- Status
- Released
- Date of Detention
- Jun 1, 2020
- Date of Detention (mm/yyyy)
- June 2020
- Length of sentence
- 3 and half years
- Description of event
Ludup, known by the lay name Rinchen Goedoe, was enrolled at Kirti Monastery at a very young age and hailed from a Samsang family in village number four of Meruma township in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba), Sichuan Province.
In June 2020, Lundup, who was 54 years old, was arbitrarily arrested in Ngaba (Chinese: Aba) County in Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, 12 years after he carried out a protest in front of Kirti Monastery in Ngaba County on 16 March 2008. The authorities neither informed his family where and which court oversaw his trial, nor gave any notice about what he was charged with.
- Type of length of sentence
- 3-5 years
- Type of place of detention
- Prison
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Deyang Prison
- Consequences of detention
Ludup spent the years 2008 to 2020 hiding from the police, who resorted to publishing a public notice calling on the people of Meruma township in Ngaba County to inform them about Ludup and a few other Kirti monks. The notice described them as having participated in an “illegal protest movement.”
Following his arrest and trial, he served his sentence in Deyang (德阳) Prison, located in Huang Xu Town in Deyang City, Sichuan Province.
- Location of prison
- Meruma
- Location of prison-comments
- Meruma township in Ngaba County
- Charges
- Advocating independence for Tibet
- Engaging in activities to split the nation
- Engaging in separatist activities
- Inciting separatism
- Type of violation
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of choice
- Freedom of expression
- Torture
- Yes
- Relation detention-release
- Early release
- Date of release
- Feb 1, 2024
- Description of torture
In February, Ludup was released from prison with injuries after being made to carry out forced labour during his three-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Ludup was under police watch and without access to medical care after release from prison.
Ludup's leg sustained serious damage from the re-education-through-forced labour transformation, and his leg is now crippled. His identity card was blacklisted and frozen, and he currently faces difficulties in accessing medical care at hospitals. Additionally, he is under surveillance and restricted from meeting families and friends, even during the Tibetan New Year.
- Comments
Ludup currently stays at home, but he is regularly summoned, interrogated, and given political re-education by Meruma Township police authorities.
- Created on
- Mar 19, 2024
- Updated on
- Mar 19, 2024
