Pema
Detentions- Person
- Status
- Detained
- Date of Detention
- Mar 26, 2024
- Date of Detention (mm/yyyy)
- 26/03/2024
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Description of event
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.
- Type of place of detention
- Unknown
- Consequences of detention
Following Pema's arbitrary arrest, Chinese security forces have intensified their control and restrictions in Ngaba County, especially in Soruma village and Kirti Monastery.
- Location of prison
- Ngaba County
- Location of prison-comments
- Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo.
- Charges
- Activities challenging Beijing's rule
- Advocating independence for Tibet
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Local Security Force
- Type of violation
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of choice
- Freedom of expression
- Freedom of peaceful protest
- Freedom of religion and belief
- Torture
- Unknown
- Relation detention-release
- Unknown
- Comments
Pema, in his early 50’s is a native of Soruma village in Ngaba County. He works as a primary teacher at the Kirti Monastery and is pursuing his higher Buddhist studies. He is widely known in the monastery as Gen Pema (Eng: teacher Pema).
- Created on
- Apr 15, 2024
- Updated on
- Apr 15, 2024