Tsongon Tsering
- Consequences of detention
Tsering was initially called to the county office along with his family members and villagers after his video went viral. He was permitted to return home briefly before being summoned again and subsequently detained. Sources indicate he is now being held in Kyungchu County prison.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 5, 2024
Tsering Tashi
Lobsang Trinley
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Oct 25, 2024
Lobsang Samten
Lobsang Thapkhey
- Length of sentence
- 3 years
- Consequences of detention
Lobsang Thapkhey was arrested in June 2023 and has been missing since has recently been sentenced to three years. He is imprisoned at Deyang(德阳) Prison in Huang Xu Town in Deyang City, Sichuan Province.
In August, Lobsang Thapkhey’s family received a brief notice informing them that he had been sentenced to three years in prison. However, no details regarding his location and whereabouts were provided, and his family was warned against disclosing the verdict publicly.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Sep 24, 2024
Tenzin Dolma
- Length of sentence
- 3 years
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Ngaba County Detention Centre
- Consequences of detention
On 23 November 2016, following over a year and a month of detention, a court in Trochu County held a trial for them. It was the first time they saw each other since their arrest. No family members were present, but two government-appointed lawyers, one Chinese and one Tibetan. They were falsely accused of separatist activities and supporting the Dalai Lama’s group and sentenced to three years each, despite being minors at 16 years old.
After the trial, they were taken to ethnic minority prisons in Sichuan and then to Chengdu city’s largest women’s prison. For the initial three months, they underwent military training and patriotic education and learned about the Chinese constitution.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Apr 24, 2024
Namkyi
- Length of sentence
- 3 years
- Related Person
- Tenzin Dolma
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Ngaba County Detention Centre
- Consequences of detention
On 23 November 2016, following over a year and a month of detention, a court in Trochu County held a trial for them. It was the first time they saw each other since their arrest. No family members were present, but two government-appointed lawyers, one Chinese and one Tibetan. They were falsely accused of separatist activities and supporting the Dalai Lama’s group and sentenced to three years each, despite being minors at 16 years old.
After the trial, they were taken to ethnic minority prisons in Sichuan and then to Chengdu city’s largest women’s prison. For the initial three months, they underwent military training and patriotic education and learned about the Chinese constitution.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Apr 24, 2024
Tenzin Dorje
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
In May 2023, he was arbitrarily detained for allegedly disseminating teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to local residents. Gedun Tenzin Dorje was skilled in reading and often provides explanations, including those of His Holiness's texts to local residents.
Although he was detained and subsequently released, he was prohibited from continuing his religious explanations. On 25 May 2023, due to heavy surveillance and restrictions by the Chinese authority, he tragically took his own life at home.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Apr 18, 2024
Pema
- Length of sentence
- 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.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Apr 15, 2024
Lundup
- Length of sentence
- 3 and half years
- 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.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Mar 19, 2024
Tenzin Khenrab
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
Chinese authorities have reportedly blocked access to his social media accounts. His only family member, a 53-year-old mother, Phude, has seen her health decline due to the lack of access to information about her son.
The e-books he possessed include materials published by Tibetan exiles, including those from monasteries, strictly prohibited by the Chinese authorities in Tibet.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Mar 11, 2024
Tenzin Khenrab
- Image

- Name in Tibetan
- བསྟན་འཛིན་མཁྱེན་རབ་
- Origin (Tibetan)
- དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Mar 11, 2024
Semkyi Dolma
- Length of sentence
- one and half years
- Consequences of detention
Following the arrest of Semkyi Dolma, her family members including her brother, Mr Tsedo went to the police station several times to enquire about her whereabouts, but the authorities refused to speak with him.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Feb 2, 2024
Semkyi Dolma
- Image

- Name in Tibetan
- སེམས་སྐྱིད་སྒྲོལ་མ་
- Origin (Tibetan)
- འདམ་གཞུང་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Feb 2, 2024
Tsering Tso
- Length of sentence
- 10 days
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Yushu Detention Centre
- Consequences of detention
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Jan 3, 2024
Palden
- Length of sentence
- 3 years
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Amdo PSB Detention Centre
- Consequences of detention
Palden was held in an undisclosed location for an extended period before getting sentenced on unknown charges.
Palden was denied fundamental rights, including access to due legal process.
Tibetan singer Palden was secretly released last month, before the completion of his three-year prison sentence. Palden was released on 25 September but remains under close police surveillance. He has been warned of potential rearrest if he performs any further songs containing politically sensitive messages or connotations. There is currently no clear information regarding his health condition.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 8, 2023
Kunchok Dakpa
- Length of sentence
- 2 months
- Consequences of detention
According to a reliable source, nearly ten days have passed since Kunchok Dakpa's arrest. His relatives have attempted to meet him but have been denied access. Kunchok is described as a simple religious monk who is not known to break Chinese government laws. It is mentioned that he purchased ritual objects from Nepal a few years ago, which is not believed to violate the law. Those who know him insist that he is not a lawbreaker.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 15, 2023
Samphel
Kalsang
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
The Darlag County police issued a notice on their social media account, urging local Tibetans to actively report any clues related to the group of detainees and other "criminal organisations." They added that informants would be "highly rewarded in accordance with its relevant regulations," while warning others that withholding such information would result in severe punishment.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
Nordue
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
The Darlag County police issued a notice on their social media account, urging local Tibetans to actively report any clues related to the group of detainees and other "criminal organisations." They added that informants would be "highly rewarded in accordance with its relevant regulations," while warning others that withholding such information would result in severe punishment.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
Namgyal
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
The Darlag County police issued a notice on their social media account, urging local Tibetans to actively report any clues related to the group of detainees and other "criminal organisations." They added that informants would be "highly rewarded in accordance with its relevant regulations," while warning others that withholding such information would result in severe punishment.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
Lochoe
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
The same day, the Darlag County police issued a notice on their social media account, urging local Tibetans to actively report any clues related to the group of detainees and other "criminal organisations." They added that informants would be "highly rewarded in accordance with its relevant regulations," while warning others that withholding such information would result in severe punishment.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
Palden
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
The Darlag County police issued a notice on their social media account, urging local Tibetans to actively report any clues related to the group of detainees and other "criminal organisations." They added that informants would be "highly rewarded in accordance with its relevant regulations," while warning others that withholding such information would result in severe punishment.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
Jigme Tenzin
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
The Darlag County police issued a notice on their social media account, urging local Tibetans to actively report any clues related to the group of detainees and other "criminal organisations." They added that informants would be "highly rewarded in accordance with its relevant regulations," while warning others that withholding such information would result in severe punishment.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
Gontse
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
The Darlag County police issued a notice on their social media account, urging local Tibetans to actively report any clues related to the group of detainees and other "criminal organisations." They added that informants would be "highly rewarded in accordance with its relevant regulations," while warning others that withholding such information would result in severe punishment.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
Gonnam
- Length of sentence
- unknown
- Consequences of detention
The Darlag County police issued a notice on their social media account, urging local Tibetans to actively report any clues related to the group of detainees and other "criminal organisations." They added that informants would be "highly rewarded in accordance with its relevant regulations," while warning others that withholding such information would result in severe punishment.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
wangchen
- Length of sentence
- 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.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 1, 2023
Tsultrim
Tsebo
- Consequences of detention
In his 32 years of service, Tsebo held a variety of police positions, from local authority to animal husbandry head, in Dzatoe County and many other locations.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Sep 27, 2023
Bhamo
- Length of sentence
- 2 years
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Serthar PSB Detention Centre
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Aug 29, 2023
Tsedo
- Length of sentence
- 2 years
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Serthar PSB Detention Centre
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Aug 29, 2023
Gelo
- Length of sentence
- 2 years
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Serthar PSB Detention Centre
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Aug 29, 2023
Chugdar
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Serthar PSB Detention Centre
- Consequences of detention
TCHRD learned that Chugdar passed away after being subjected to severe beatings and other forms of torture during his detention as he had no record of medical conditions at the time of his arrest.
Chugdar's family learned that he had passed away while in custody after two days.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Aug 29, 2023
Kelsang Tsering
- Length of sentence
- 11 years
- Consequences of detention
He was formally arrested on 18 October 2019 in Chone: (Ch: Zhuoni), Gansu Province located in the southeast of (Ch: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. And the case was transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution on 7 January 2020.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Jul 17, 2023
Zangkar Jamyang
- Length of sentence
- 4 years
- Location of arrest
- 32° 47′ 33″ N, 102° 32′ 34″ E
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Mianyang Prison
- Consequences of detention
Zangkar Jamyang a Tibetan writer had been taken away and disappeared by China nearly three years ago from Khyungchu County in Ngaba Prefecture, Sichuan Province. He has recently been found serving a four-year jail sentence.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- May 9, 2023
Zangkar Jamyang
- Image

- Name in Tibetan
- ཟངས་དཀར་འཇམ་དབྱངས་
- Origin (Tibetan)
- ཁྱུང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- May 9, 2023
Yangtso
Phende Gyaltsen
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Feb 8, 2023
Monlam Gyatso
Chakbe
Pema Rinchen
Tsering Dolma
Samdup
Sonam Gyatso
Rachung Gendun
- Length of sentence
- 3 and half years
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 8, 2022
Rinchen Dhondup
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 7, 2022
Rinchen Samdup
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Nov 7, 2022
Lobsang Sangye
Rigtse
Nyima
Senam
Norzin Wangmo
Tenzin Dhargay
- Length of sentence
- 3 Years and 6 months
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Apr 18, 2022
Lhundup Sangmo
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Mar 22, 2022
Tenzin Nyima
- Name in Tibetan
- བསྟན་འཛིན་ཉི་མ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Feb 22, 2022
Thinley thokmey
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Feb 22, 2022
Thinley Thokmey
- Name in Tibetan
- འཕྲིན་ལས་ཐོགས་མེད།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Feb 22, 2022
Lobsang Tsomo
- Name in Tibetan
- བློ་བཟང་མཚོ་མོ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Feb 21, 2022
Lhamo Yangkyi
- Name in Tibetan
- ལྷ་མོ་དབྱངས་སྐྱིད།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Feb 21, 2022
Tsering Samdup
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Feb 21, 2022
Tsering Samdup
- Name in Tibetan
- ཚེ་རིང་བསམ་གྲུབ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Feb 21, 2022
Tashi Dorjee
- Name in Tibetan
- བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྡོ་རྗེ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Feb 21, 2022
Nortso
- Name in Tibetan
- ནོར་ཚེ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- བྲག་གཡབ་རྫོང་།__(2)
- Date added
- Feb 15, 2022
Pema Wangchen
- Image

- Name in Tibetan
- པདྨ་དབང་ཆེན།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Feb 9, 2022
Wangchen Nyima
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Jan 21, 2022
Wangchen Nyima
- Name in Tibetan
- དབང་ཆེན་ཉི་མ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Jan 21, 2022
Pema Kunsang
Pema Kunsang
- Name in Tibetan
- པདྨ་ཀུན་བཟང་།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Jan 17, 2022
Phuntsok
Ngawang Wangdol
Ngawang Wangdol
- Name in Tibetan
- ངག་དབང་དབང་སྒྲོལ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- ལྷོ་ཁ་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Jan 13, 2022
Ngawang Kyizom
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Jan 13, 2022
Ngawang Kyizom
- Name in Tibetan
- ངག་དབང་སྐྱིད་འཛོམས།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- མལ་གྲོ་གུང་དཀར་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Jan 13, 2022
Migmar Dolma
Migmar Dolma
- Name in Tibetan
- མིག་དམར་སྒྲོལ་མ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- ལྷ་ས།
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
Migmar
Lhundup Monlam
- Length of sentence
- 4 years and 6 months
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
Lhundup Monlam
- Name in Tibetan
- ལྷུན་གྲུབ་སྨོན་ལམ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- རྒྱལ་རྩ་ེརྫོང་།
- Date added
- Jan 10, 2022
Sabuchey
- Length of sentence
- 4 years, 6 months
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 29, 2021
Rongwo Gangkar
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 29, 2021
Rongwo Gangkar
- Image

- Name in Tibetan
- རོང་བོ་གངས་དཀར།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- རེབ་གོང་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Dec 29, 2021
Rongwo Gendun Lhundup
- Length of sentence
- 4 years
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 29, 2021
Rongwo Gendun Lhundup
- Name in Tibetan
- རོང་བོ་དགེ་འདུན་ལྷུན་གྲུབ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- རེབ་གོང་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Dec 29, 2021
Lobsang Jamyang
Lobsang Jamyang
- Name in Tibetan
- བློ་བཟང་འཇམ་དབྱངས།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- རྔ་པ་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Dec 28, 2021
Yangdon
Chogdrup Drolma
Chogdrup Drolma
- Name in Tibetan
- མཆོག་གྲུབ་སྒྲོལ་མ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- འདམ་གཞུང་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Dec 27, 2021
Chime Gyaltsen
- Length of sentence
- 1 year 6 months
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 27, 2021
Chime Gyaltsen
- Name in Tibetan
- འཆི་མེད་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Dec 27, 2021
Gonpo
Gonpo
Sonam Tsewang
- Name in Tibetan
- བསོད་ནམས་ཚེ་དབང་།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- མལ་གྲོ་གུང་དཀར་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Dec 24, 2021
Kyil Khar
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Drapchi Prison
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 24, 2021
Dawa Kyizom
- Name in Tibetan
- ཟླ་བ་སྐྱིད་འཛོམས།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- ལྷ་ས།
- Date added
- Dec 24, 2021
Dakpa Kalko
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Barkham Prison
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 24, 2021
Dhargyal
- Name in Tibetan
- དར་རྒྱལ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- མལ་གྲོ་གུང་དཀར་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Dec 24, 2021
Choephel
Dawa Tsering
- Name in Tibetan
- ཟླ་བ་ཚེ་རིང་།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- ནག་ཆུ་ས་ཁུལ།
- Date added
- Dec 24, 2021
Dawa Yangzom
- Name in Tibetan
- ཟླ་བ་དབྱངས་འཛོམས།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- ལྷོ་ཁ་ས་ཁུལ།
- Date added
- Dec 24, 2021
Dawa Yangzom
Dawa Dorjee
Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 23, 2021
Tanak Jigme Sangpo
- Length of sentence
- 28
- Detention centre/prison (Detention template)
- Drapchi Prison
- Consequences of detention
He was beaten harshly till his body turned numb and a new method of 'Cold Cell' torture was first used on him where he was surrounded by cold metal sheets on either side of the wall to lower the temperature of the cell.
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Date added
- Dec 23, 2021
Gaden
Lungrig Gyatso
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Gosoe
ManKyap
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Lobsang Choegen
- Length of sentence
- April 2008
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Tsewang
Passang Norbu
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Phugyi Bhumo
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Gechung Bhumo
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Bang Tsegha
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Tashi Lhayang
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Soe Choedon
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Tseme Lhamo
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Lobsang Choegen
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Phelsam Tashi
- Length of sentence
- March 2008
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Dorji Dargey
Godon Sangey
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Gedun Nagdang
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Kunsang Dorjee
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Bhamo
- Person - Biographical Details label
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Tsering Norbu
- Length of sentence
- April 2008
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Thupten tenzin
- Length of sentence
- April 2008
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Dradul
Tenzin Rabgyal
- Length of sentence
- April 2008
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Kelden Choephel
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Gyaltsen Tsedon
- Length of sentence
- March 2008
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Daphel
Kungsang Lhamo
- Length of sentence
- March 2008
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Kunsang Lhamo
- Name in Tibetan
- ཀུན་བཟང་ལྷ་མོ།
- Origin (Tibetan)
- ཆུ་ཤུལ་རྫོང་།
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
Sonam Rabgey
- Relation to Prisoner by Information label
- Date added
- Dec 20, 2021
















































