![]() ![]() ![]() Norbu Dondrub, 66, chaplain at Tengdro monastery, sentenced to 17 years in prison. Shortly after Lobsang Zoepa’s suicide, internet connections to the village were cut off. Three days after the police raid on the village and the monastery, Lobsang Zoepa, a monk at Tengdro monastery and a resident of Dranak, committed suicide in apparent protest against the authorities’ treatment of his family and community. Police then began interrogating all the Tengdro monks, and a team of cadres-government or Chinese Communist Party officials-began holding daily political education sessions with monks from the monastery and village residents. Like Choegyal Wangpo, they are believed to have been held on suspicion of having exchanged messages with other Tibetans abroad, of having contributed to the earthquake relief sent to Tibetans at the sister monastery in Nepal, or of having possessed photographs or literature related to the Dalai Lama. During the night raid, police severely beat a number of Tengdro monks and villagers, and detained about 20 of them. This detention set in motion a chain of events: a contingent of police and other security forces traveled from Lhasa to Choegyal Wangpo’s home village of Dranak, and raided the village and adjoining monastery of Tengdro. Lhasa police immediately detained Choegyal Wangpo, reportedly beat him severely, and interrogated him.Ĭhoegyal Wangpo, 48, monk and leader of Tengdro monastery, sentenced to 20 years in prison. The messages showed that Choegyal Wangpo had sent a donation from Tengdro monastery to help those Tibetans and their community to recover from the April 2015 earthquake that caused widespread devastation across Nepal. The café owner gave the phone to police, who found messages between Choegyal Wangpo and other Tibetans originally from his area of Tingri now living in Nepal, where they had established a monastery. In late August or early September 2019, Choegyal Wangpo, a 46-year-old monk from Tengdro monastery in Tingri county in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), mistakenly left his cellphone in a café while visiting Lhasa, the regional capital. ![]() Dong Yunhu, former head of the Tibet Autonomous Region Propaganda Bureau, Tibet Autonomous Region meeting “to promote striking down and clearing up infiltration of reactionary Tibet Independence propaganda,” February 2, 2015 “Offenders must be punished hard and swiftly, public security and cultural market administrations must investigate and prosecute them with awesome power.” ![]()
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