Additional Name(s): Gendun Lhundrup, དགེ་འདུན་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་, 更登冷智, 根敦楞珠

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: China

Ethnic Group: Tibetan

Religion or Belief: Buddhist – Tibetan

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: December/2/2020

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: Yes

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Criticizing Religious Freedom Conditions

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Gedun Lhundrub

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Gedun Lhundrub is detained in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.

On December 2, 2020, police in Rebgong (Tongren) county, Malho (Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province, detained Lhundrub, a writer and monk, at Rebgong’s Rongwo Monastery, reportedly while he was on his way to attend a religious debate in Rebgong. Authorities targeted Lhundrub reportedly after he questioned Chinese policies regarding the sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism at a Rebgong-area workshop. 

In May 2022, it was reported that Lhundrub was being held at a detention facility in Xining municipality, Qinghai. Officials had reportedly prohibited his family from visiting him and were forcing him to translate Tibetan Buddhist texts into Mandarin.

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