Pen name Te’urang
Sex Male
Birth date 1986
Birth place Dzoege County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Resident place Dzoege County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Education Northwest Minorities University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province
Profession Student, Tibetan writer, chief editor of Tibetan monthly Shar Dhung-Ri (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2010-04-06
Organ of arrest unknown
Cause of arrest editing the banned Shar Dungri (Eastern Snow Mountain) and authoring of a new collection of political articles entitled Written in Blood.
Charge Inciting split of the country
Date of sentence 2011-06-02
Organ of sentence Intermediate People’s Court of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Sentence 4 years imprisonment and ? years deprivation of political rights
Defender unknown
Place of jail The Prison of Sichuan Mianyang, No. 269 South Yuzhong Road, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province 621000 P.R. China
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2014-03-29
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of sentence on 2014-03-29 (Therefore the case closed)
References
http://freetibetanheroes.org/hero-profiles/tashi-rabten/
http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2011/06/tashi-rabtens-sentence-and-his-poetry/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-china-tibet-writer-idUSTRE7610GJ20110702
http://www.tchrd.org/2014/04/roar-of-the-snow-lion-tibetan-writer-tashi-rabten-released-after-4-years-in-prison/
http://freetibetanheroes.org/portfolio-items/tashi-rabten/