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Name 

Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang

Pen 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
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  unknown
Date of release  2024-02-25
Family contact   
Donation to  
Case adopted by  ICPC
Current Status Investigation
Reference  

http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3317/prmID/1610

http://www.ifex.org/china/2009/03/17/internet_writer_kunchok_tsephel/

http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3317/prmID/1610

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/恒抜嘉凍 (Chinese)

http://woeser.middle-way.net/2009/11/blog-post_17.html  (Chinese)

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4905491,00.html  (Chinese)


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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