Current prisoners |
Arrested August 2007
Four men (Runggye Adak, Adak Lopoe, Kunkyen and Lothok) were sentenced to between 3 and 10 years following Runggye Adak’s public call for the return of the Dalai Lama at a horse race festival in Lithang in August 2007.Kunkhyen, a Tibetan art teacher was sentenced to nine years on charges of "carrying out splittist activities" and a fourth Tibetan, Jarib Lothok, received a three-year sentence for allegedly helping to send photos of the aftermath of the protest abroad.
Arrested August 2007
A local nomad is serving an eight year sentence for calling for the return of the Dalai Lama at an annual horse racing festival in August 2007.
Arrested August 2007
A respected Tibetan monk, the nephew of Runggye Adak was arrested in Lithang in August 2007. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on 20th November 2007 for ‘colluding with separatist forces to split the country’
Arrested March 2005
Dolma Gyab, a Tibetan history school teacher was sentenced to ten years imprisonment on charges that appear to be espionage.
Arrested November 2005
>Two brothers, Dawa Gyaltsen & Nyima (layname Tenzin Dorje) are currently in prison for producing leaflets calling for Tibetan freedom.
Arrested 1999
Bangri Tsamtrul Rinpoche, the founder of the Gyatso children's home and school, is serving life imprisonment for charges of 'attempting to split the country'.
Nyima Coedron released February 2006
Arrested April 2002
Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, one of the most important religious leaders in Tibet, is in prison for a crime he did not commit. Initially sentenced to death in 2002, China commuted his sentence to life imprisonment in January 2005 following an intense international campaign.
Arrested 1995, aged 6
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was abducted in 1995 by the Chinese authorities, at the age of six. His abduction came just days after he had been recognised by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama. Gedhun has not been seen since and the Chinese Government has installed a boy of its own choosing as the Panchen Lama.