Yonten
Additional Name(s): Yongdeng, ཡོན་ཏན་, 云丹, 拥等
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Tibetan
Religion or Belief: Buddhist – Tibetan
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Sentence: 4 Years' Imprisonment
Date of Detainment: November/21/2019
Date of Sentencing: December/14/2020
Current Status: Unknown
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Reason for Persecution: Protesting Religious Freedom Conditions
Nature of Charges: Separatism
Yonten
Extra Bio Info:
Yonten was imprisoned for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On November 21, 2019, authorities arrested Yonten and another individual after they had protested outside of a police station calling for the release of a group of monks and for Tibetan independence.
On December 14, 2020, the Ganzi Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Yonten to four years in prison for “inciting to split the country."
Yonten's sentence should have ended in November 2023.
Sources:
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"Yonten" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
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"China: Tibetan Monk Dies from Beating in Custody" Human Rights Watch