wangchen
Detentions- Person
- Status
- Detained
- Date of Detention
- Jun 1, 2023
- Date of Detention (mm/yyyy)
- June 2023
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Description of event
In June 2023, former political prisoner Mr. Wangchen was detained by the Lhasa Police and subjected to torture, resulting in severe injuries to his intestines. He was scheduled to be sent to his hometown, Sershul County (Ch: Shiqu), in the Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, by plane. However, airline managers refused to take him due to his health condition, prompting an urgent transfer to the military hospital near Sarah Monastery.
Even though he was released, his ID card was not returned. He and his family members visited Lhasa for a pilgrimage, but since he did not possess permission to visit Lhasa and his ID cards were confiscated. Lhasa Police detained him and subjected him to torture.
- Date of sentence
- Jun 1, 2023
- Type of length of sentence
- Unknown
- Type of place of detention
- Unknown
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Lhasa Secret Police Office
- Consequences of detention
In June 2023, former political prisoner Mr. Wangchen was detained by the Lhasa Police and subjected to torture, resulting in severe injuries to his intestines. He was scheduled to be sent to his hometown, Sershul County (Ch: Shiqu), in the Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, by plane. However, airline managers refused to take him due to his health condition, prompting an urgent transfer to the military hospital near Sarah Monastery.
- Location of prison
- Lhasa
- Location of prison-comments
- Lhasa, Capital city of TAR
- Charges
- Inciting separatism
- Responsible for arrest and detention
- Police
- Type of violation
- Right to access to culture
- Torture
- Yes
- Relation detention-release
- Unknown
- Description of torture
Mr. Wangchen was detained by the Lhasa Police and subjected to torture, resulting in severe injuries to his intestines. He was scheduled to be sent to his hometown, Sershul County (Ch: Shiqu), in the Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, by plane. However, airline managers refused to take him due to his health condition, prompting an urgent transfer to the military hospital near Sarah Monastery.
- Comments
In 2019, a former political prisoner, Mr. Wangchen, and his friends Lobsang, Yonten, and another person performed a smoke offering and prayed for the immediate release of the 11th Panchen Lama Gendun ChoeKyi Nyima and the return of the 14th Dalai Lama to Tibet. Due to this, they were detained by the Sershul County Police. Lobsang and Yonten were detained for six months, and Mr. Wangchen was charged with inciting separatism and was sentenced to two years, being released in April 2023.
No arrest warrant had been issued for him before his detention. The individuals responsible for his arrest were members of the Lhasa Police force, dressed in police uniforms.
- Created on
- Nov 1, 2023
- Updated on
- Nov 1, 2023