Additional Name(s): Karma Samdup, ཀརྨ་བསམ་གྲུབ་, ཀརྨ་བསམ་འགྲུབ་, 噶玛桑珠
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Tibetan
Religion or Belief: Buddhist – Tibetan
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Date of Detainment: August/12/2022
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: Separatism
Karma Samdrub is detained for his adherence to a religious figure.
On August 12, 2022, authorities in Lhasa municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained Samdrub after finding him with a pendant and images of the Dalai Lama. He was criminally detained for allegedly "contacting separatists."