Pen name Gangnyi
Sex Male
Birth date 1989
Birth place Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province
Resident place Labrang monastery, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu ProvinceEducation Buddhism Institute of Labrang monastery, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu
Profession Monk, Tibetan writer, photographer and environmentalist (ICPC honorary member)
Date of arrest 2009-03-17
Organ of arrest Public Security Bureau of Hezuo Cuty, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province
Cause of arrest Publishing online articles on Tibetan culture and the crackdown in the Tibet Autonomous Region in March 2008
Charge Inciting split of the country and Leaking the state security
Date of sentence 2009-11-14
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Hezuo City, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province
Sentence 5 years imprisonment and ? years deprivation of political rights
Defender unknown
Place of jail Dashaping Prison, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province
Situation in jail unknown
Date of release 2014-01-12
Family contact
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Release on expiry of sentence on 2014-01-12 (Therefore the case closed)
References
http://freetibetanheroes.org/hero-profiles/kunga-tseyang/
http://earthsthirdpole.org/tibet/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=23
http://woeser.middle-way.net/2009/08/blog-post_06.html (photos)
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-kunga-tseyang-and-dokru-tsultrim/
http://freetibetanheroes.org/free-tibetan-hero-kunga-tsayang-released/
http://freetibetanheroes.org/portfolio-items/kunga-tseyang/