Chengdu - Tibetan man arrested for possesion of Dalai Lama's speech
September 25: Reports have emerged that a Tibetan man has been detained by the Chinese authorities in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, in May last year for alleged possession of Dalai Lama's speech.
A native of Welpen township in Machu County, Lobsang Namgyal, 26, was arrested from a market in Chengdu city where he was doing a part-time job, said Lhamo Kyab, a former political prisoner living here. “However after 9 months of his disappearance, Chinese authorities informed his family members about his detention in Chengdu city,” Kyab added.
Lobsang’s family was told that he was arrested for printing “politically sensitive documents” and being in possession of speeches by the exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, according to Kyab.
Lobsang’s family members were told that Lobsang had committed a “serious crime” and were barred by Chinese authorities to provide him food and clothes in the detention centre.
In 2008, Lobsang was arrested with many other Tibetans for staging a peaceful protest in Machu County but was released later.
In 2011, after completion of his schooling, Lobsang had written a book titled Tsol (search)