An exile Tibetan returnee was arrested yesterday for staging a solo protest in front of Tsuglakhang in Lhasa, according to confirmed information received from reliable source by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights…
The Chinese authorities re-arrested Jigme Gyatso, who was previously arrested on 23 March 2008 and then later released on 15 October 2008 for providing assistance to the making of the film LEAVING FEAR BEHIND ( Tib: Jigdrel).
TCHRD learnt from various sources that Jigme Gyatso a.k.a Golog Jigme, age 40, a monk of Amdo Labrang Monastery, was re-arrested by Sangchu County Public Security Bureau (PSB) personnel some where around 10 March 2009 from his residence in Sangchu County, Kanlho (Ch: Gannan) “Tibet Autonomous Prefecture” (“TAP”), Gansu Province.
Sources told TCHRD that around 4 am in the morning, around 10 March 2009, the Sangchu County PSB personnel entered Jigme Gyatso’s room and arrested him without giving any explanation. Since then there has been no information about his whereabouts.
According to a reliable information received by the Tibetan Centre
for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), Jinpa Gyatso, a younger
brother of a Chinese government civil servant Tashi Dhondup
disappeared few days before the latter’s arrest on 12 March 2009.
Jinpa Gyatso, age 25, also hailed from Sum-dho Township, Mangra
County (Ch: Gui nan Xian), Tsolho “Tibet Autonomous Prefecture”
“TAP”, (Ch: Hainan) Qinghai Province. He was a student at a higher
college in Xining city, the provincial capital city of Qinghai Province.
Tashi Dhondup’s wife Rinchen Tso and her five and three years old
daughters were helpless at the face of their family tragedy. Sources
told TCHRD that the provincial authorities have deployed a huge
contingent of armed security forces in Sum-dho Townships, Tharshul
and Gomang Townships under Mangra County. TCHRD also learnt that a
huge numbers of the Chinese security forces and informers in civilian
dress were deployed in the surrounding areas of Mangra County.
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