The Central Tibetan Administration report stated that the pair had been arrested by the Public Security Bureau in connection with the peaceful protests in Lhasa in 2008. Migmar was sentenced over a year later, on 27 October, on charges of espionage. Tenchoe was sentenced sometime in either September or October after being arrested following a protest on March 10 2008 in Lhasa.

The report went on to state that Tenchoe had been moved to Chushul prison following his sentencing, in order to take part in hard labour. It was said that he was convicted after police said they had photos of him protesting. The Central Tibetan Administration report also said that Tenchoe had been interrograted, and that police had referred to his father's past as a pretext for detaining him. Tenchoe's father Mr. Khedup took part in political activities in Tibet until he left for Dharamsala, India in 1993. The report said that the police had interrogated Tenchoe, attempting to gain information showing that Mr. Khedup had instigated his son's involvement in the protest.

Tenzin Choedak, AKA Tenchoe

Migmar was born in Dingri district, Shigatse Prefecture in 1973, and left Tibet in 1982 to study at teh Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala. He completed his schooling in 1995. He then returned to Tibet to work helping farmers and nomads to improve their health and was also concentrating on social development work.

Tenchoe was born in Lhasa and also moved to India in around 1990, where he also studied at the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala.  He returned to Tibet in 2005 to work on behalf of a European Non-Government-Organisation (NGO) connected to the Red Cross. He concentrated his efforts on environmental protection projects around Lhasa and Shigatse.

The Central Tibetan Administration concluded the report by stating that according to its figures, over 4,657 were arrested during the protests in Tibet in 2008, 371 have been sentenced and more than 990 have simply disappeared.