China Prison Detention
China: Missing Tibetan writer said to be detained in prison
Beijing: The Tibetan writer and poet Gendun Lhundrub, who has been held incommunicado for more than a year after his arrest in 2020, is currently languishing in a prison in Siling, media reports said.
Lhundrub, aged around 47 and formerly a monk at Rongwo monastery in Rebgong (Tongren) county in the Malho (Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, had been monitored by authorities for signs of political dissent before being detained, a Tibetan living in exile told RFA in a previous report.
Authorities arrested Lhundrub on Dec 2, 2020, in western China’s Qinghai province while he was on his way to attend a religious debate in Rebgong.
He was put in the back of a black car driven by Chinese police, according to a witness.
“We have learned that Gendun Lhundrub whose whereabouts remained unknown until now is being detained at a detention center in Siling,” a Tibetan who lives inside the Tibet Autonomous Region told the news portal. “However, his family members are still not allowed to see him, and no information about his condition has been revealed.”
Lhundrub is reportedly undergoing political re-education program for which he must translate Tibetan Buddhist scripts into Mandarin Chinese, the source told RFA.
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