By Phuntsok Yangchen
DHARAMSHALA, November 10: Chinese authorities have released a Tibetan who was detained last year on November 3 for carrying out a solo protest in Kardze County.
Passang Wangchuk, 37 year old Tibetan businessman, carried out a lone protest in the market of Kardze County on October 4 last year raising slogans and making onlookers read out his protest demands written on a white cloth. He called for the return of Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet among other slogans including “freedom in Tibet.”
Few minutes into his protest, Wangchuk was arrested by Chinese police and held at a Detention Centre in Kardze County.
According to an exile Tibetan source, the Chinese authorities mainly questioned him about the writings on a white cloth that he was carrying during his lone protest. The banner read, “Tibetans should have minority rights and Tibetan martyrs should not be forgotten.”
