134. KUNCHOK TSEPHEL GOPEY TSANG

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KUNCHOK TSEPHEL GOPEY TSANGPen name               

 Sex                               Male

 Birth date                1970

Birth place              Maqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province

Resident place         Maqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province

  Education             Northwest Minorities University, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province; Central University for Nationalities, Beijing

Profession              official at Animal Husbandry Bureau of Maqu County, founder and editor of the Tibetan language website Chomei (The Lamp) www.tibetcm.com (ICPC honorary member)

 Date of arrest         2009-02-26

 Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province

Cause of arrest         Publishing online articles on the crackdown in the Tibet Autonomous Region in March 2008

Charge                          Leaking the state security

 Date of sentence     2009-11-12 (closed)

 Organ of sentence  Intermediate People’s Court of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province

Sentence                     15 years imprisonment and ? years deprivation of political rights

Defender                       unknown

Place of jail                 Gannan Prison, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province

Situation in jail      Health deterioration

Date of release        2024-02-25

Family contact

Donation to            

 Case adopted by     ICPC

Current Status         Main case

 References
http://www.chinesepen.org/english/china-tibet-pen-reiterates-its-calls-for-the-release-of-writer-and-editor-kunchok-tsephel-gopey-tsang
http://www.refworld.org/docid/56701fa915.html
http://www.ifex.org/china/2009/03/17/internet_writer_kunchok_tsephel/
https://pen.org/infographic-kunchok-tsephel-gopey-tsang/
http://norskpen.no/en_GB/tag/kunchok-tsephel-gopey-tsang/