Additional Name(s): Rinchen Sangpo, རིན་ཆེན་བཟང་པོ་
Gender: Unspecified
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Tibetan
Religion or Belief: Buddhist – Tibetan
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Date of Detainment: July/13/2021
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Adherence to a Religious Figure Possession of Religious Materials
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Rinchen Zangpo
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Rinchen Zangpo is detained for adherence to a religious figure.
On July 13, 2021, public security officials in Serthar (Seda) county, Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, detained four Tibetans, including Zangpo, at a restaurant after police searched their phones. It is reported that authorities had been searching the phones of local residents for images of the Dalai Lama around the time of his birthday.
Related Cases: Dagther, Loga, Wangchug Kyi
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"Rinchen Zangpo" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): Dather, དག་ཐེར་
Gender: Unspecified
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Tibetan
Religion or Belief: Buddhist – Tibetan
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Date of Detainment: July/13/2021
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Adherence to a Religious Figure Possession of Religious Materials
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Dagther
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Dagther is detained for adherence to a religious figure.
On July 13, 2021, public security officials in Serthar (Seda) county, Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, detained four Tibetans, including Dagther, at a restaurant after police searched their phones. It is reported that authorities had been searching the phones of local residents for images of the Dalai Lama around the time of his birthday.
Related Cases: Rinchen Zangpo, Loga, Wangchug Kyi
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"Dagther" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): Trinley Tsekhar, འཕྲིན་ལས་ཚེ་དཀར་, 赤列次噶(音)
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Tibetan
Religion or Belief: Buddhist – Tibetan
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 9 Years' Imprisonment
Date of Detainment: November/20/2013
Date of Sentencing: December/19/2013
Current Status: Unknown
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Preserving Religious Sites & Sacred Lands Protesting Religious Freedom Conditions Religious Belief
Nature of Charges: Separatism
Trinle Tsekar
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Trinle Tsekar was imprisoned in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
On November 20, 2013, public security officials detained Tsekar in Biru (Driru) town, Biru county, Naqu (Nagchu) prefecture, Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Authorities had reportedly suspected that Tsekar and others were instigating protests against mining operations at Naglha Dzamba, a mountain regarded as religiously significant.
On December 19, 2013, the Biru County People’s Court reportedly sentenced Tsekar to nine years in imprisonment for activities intended to "split" Tibet from China.
Tsekar's sentence should have ended in November 2022.
Related Cases: Choekyab
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"Trinle Tsekar" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
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"China Jails Three Tibetans Over Anti-Mining Protest" Radio Free Asia (RFA)