Appendix 2 to TIN News Update 17 May 1996 ("UN Experts Criticise China")

List of Tibetan and Turkic Dissidents declared to be arbitrarily detained by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions in its decision no. 46 (1995)

name (layname) sex/age occptn residence/place

of origin date det. sentence/prison

Tibetans:

Phuntsog Nyidrol (Tseten) d f/23 nun Michungri

Nun./Phenpo Lhundrup 14/10/89 17yr/Drapchi

Lhundrup Sangmo (Sangmo) d f/23 nun Michungri

Nun./Lhundrup 21/08/90 9yr/Drapchi

Gyaltsen Drolkar (Dawa) d f/19 nun Garu

Nun./Maldro Gongkar 21/08/90 12yr/Drapchi

Tenzin Thubten (Dawa Yangkyi) b, d f/20 nun Michungri

Nun./Maldro Gongkar 21/08/90 14yr/Drapchi

Gyaltsen Choezom (Penpa Choezom) d f/21 nun Garu

Nun./Taktse 21/08/90 10yr/Drapchi

Palden Choedron (Palden Yangkyi) b, d f/19 nun Shungsep

Nun./Nyemo 01/10/90 8yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Choezom (Pasang Lhamo) b, d f/22 nun Chubsang

Nun./Toelung 21/03/92 11yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Lochoe (Dondrup Drolma) b, d f/19 nun Samdrup Drolma

Lhakhang/Toelung 14/05/92 10yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Tsamdrol (Dekyi Wangmo) b, d f/21 nun Samdrup Drolma

Lhakhang/Toelung 14/05/92 10yr/Drapchi

Namdrol Lhamo (Nyidrol) b, d f/28 nun Chubsang

Nun./Rinpung 12/05/92 12yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Choekyi (Yeshe) b, d f/23 nun Samdrup Drolma

Lhakhang/Maldro 14/05/92 13yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Sangdrol (Rigchog) a, b, d f/15 nun Garu

Nun./Lhasa 17/06/92 9yr /Drapchi

Gyaltsen Kunga (Yangkyi) a, b f/21 nun Garu Nun./Nyemo

Thonchue 14/06/93 2yr/Drapchi

Rinchen Drolma a, b f/22 nun Garu Nun./Maldro

Lungshoe 14/06/93 2yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Dedrol (Rinchen Choedron) b f/23 nun Garu Nun./Medro

Gongkar Thangkya 14/06/93 7yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Chime (Phurdrol) b, c f/19 nun Garu

Nun./Maldro Gongkar Drangda 14/06/93 4yr/Drapchi

Gyaltsen Sangmo (Achog Zompa) b, c f/23 nun Garu

Nun./Kongpo Gyada Drugla 14/06/93 3yr/Drapchi

Phuntsog Choekyi (Dekyi) b f/22 nun Garu

Nun./Phenpo Lhundrup Khache 14/06/93 7yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Keldrol (Goekyi) b f/19 nun Garu

Nun./Maldro Gyama Trikhang 14/06/93 5yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Choekyi (Yeshe) b, c f/21 nun Garu

Nun./Lhundrup Phondo Ngarang 14/06/93 4yr/Drapchi

Ngawang Palmo (Tsering) b f/22 nun Garu

Nun./Lhundrup Phondo Lhanga 14/06/93 3yr/Drapchi

Uighurs:

Mantimyn (Chinese: Maimaitiming) m/50+ School

administrator No 5 Middle School, Urumqi/Yili, Xinjiang dd/05/9

0 unknown sent a petition on human rights

abuses to the United Nations

Turgun Almas (Chinese: Tuergong Alemas) m/68 historian Academy of

Social Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang dd/mm/92 house arrest publi

shed book with unofficial views on Uighur questions

Abdul Malik m/- shopworker Yecheng, Xinjiang 10/08/90

5 yrs/unknown produced leaflets protesting against religious

restrictions

Ohmer Khan Mahsun m/70 -- Yecheng,

Xinjiang dd/07/90 unknown produced leaflets

protesting against religious restrictions

Kazakh:

Kajikhumar Shabdan (Chinese: Hajihumaer) m/72 writer,

poet Tacheng, Xinjiang/Kazakhstan dd/12/88 12

yrs/unknown reason unknown but wrote a history book which has

been banned

Notes:

a due for release because of completing sentence, but release has not been confirmed

b detention officially confirmed by PRC, generally for counter-revolutionary offences, in statements submitted to UN bodies

c detention confirmed in PRC statement to US government in June 1994, described then as 'not yet criminally sentenced'

d given additional sentence in 1993 for singing songs in prison praising the Dalai Lama