Tibetan Scholar
Tibetan scholar arrested in China for his writings languishing without trial for two years
Lhasa: A Tibetan writer arrested on unspecified charges two years ago has still not been brought to trial, and family members are being kept in the dark about his fate, Tibetan sources told Radio Free Asia, citing yet another instance of Chinese atrocities in the region.
Lobsang Lhundup, who goes by the pen name Dhi Lhaden, was taken into custody in June 2019 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 told RFA.
“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," the source added.
Born in 1980, Lhundup is a native of the Pema district of Sichuan’s Golog (in Chinese, Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, sources told RFA.
He turned a monk at the age of 11.
He studied at Sichuan’s Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Academy.
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