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

Extra Bio Info:

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.

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