“It appears that someone told the owner of the cultural center about the teaching materials he was using, and so he was arrested,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity for reasons of personal safety. “Lhundup is a friendly person and known to many people, and his friends have avoided talking about him till now in the hope that he might be released,” the source said. “But his trial is still pending. No further information about him has been released, and no one has been allowed to meet with him at all.”
lørdag 19. juni 2021
Tibetan Scholar Arrested for His Writings Has Been Held Without Trial for Three Years
A Tibetan writer arrested on unspecified charges three years ago has still not been brought to trial, and family members are being kept in the dark about his fate, Tibetan sources say. Lobsang Lhundup, who goes by the pen name Dhi Lhaden, was taken into custody in June 2018 while working at a private cultural education center in Chengdu, the capital of western China’s Sichuan province, a source living in Tibet told RFA.
“It appears that someone told the owner of the cultural center about the teaching materials he was using, and so he was arrested,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity for reasons of personal safety. “Lhundup is a friendly person and known to many people, and his friends have avoided talking about him till now in the hope that he might be released,” the source said. “But his trial is still pending. No further information about him has been released, and no one has been allowed to meet with him at all.”
“It appears that someone told the owner of the cultural center about the teaching materials he was using, and so he was arrested,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity for reasons of personal safety. “Lhundup is a friendly person and known to many people, and his friends have avoided talking about him till now in the hope that he might be released,” the source said. “But his trial is still pending. No further information about him has been released, and no one has been allowed to meet with him at all.”
