Phuntsog

Phuntsog Tsenam is a 33 year old Tibetan monk from Lhasa.

Along with a hundred other fellow monks he participated in a peaceful march towards Lhasa on 14 March 2008. The monks were  appealing for the release of two  monks who were arrested two years earlier. Following mass protests in Lhasa in March 2008 the authorities imposed a severe crackdown. Phuntsog was detained on 17 April 2008 for unknown reasons and held for a year. His family was not notified of his arrest and were not aware of his whereabouts for the whole year. He was moved to three different detention centres.  No charges were brought against him and he never found out the reason for his year long detention.

Phuntsog escaped from Tibet over the Himalayas in November 2008.




Listen to Phuntsog’s testimony read by Alan Rickman