Additional Name(s): 亚玛扎西(音)
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Tibetan
Religion or Belief: Buddhist – Tibetan
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Date of Detainment: June//2018
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
Yama Tashi is detained for adherence to a religious figure.
In June 2018, authorities in Luhuo (Draggo) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, arrested Tashi, a restaurant owner, for his possession of photographs of the Dalai Lama.
"Yama Tashi" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
Additional Name(s): Choegyal, 拉杰, 曲杰, Qujie, Qujia, 曲加, ལྷ་རྒྱལ་, ཆོས་རྒྱལ་
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
Lhagyal was imprisoned for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On November 21, 2019, authorities arrested Lhagyal 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 Lhagyal to four years in prison for “inciting to split the country."
Lhagyal's sentence should have ended in November 2023.
"Lhagyal" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"China: Tibetan Monk Dies from Beating in Custody" Human Rights Watch
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 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.
"Yonten" Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)
"China: Tibetan Monk Dies from Beating in Custody" Human Rights Watch