14 April 2008
Drepung monks detained during Patriotic Education campaign
(TCHRD) A number of monks from Drepung Monastery in Lhasa were detained by Chinese security on and around 12 April 2008 following the monks' protest against a Chinese ‘work team’ sent to the monastery to conduct ‘patriotic education’, according to information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) authorities sent the ‘Legal Information Education’ work team as a part of the patriotic education campaign at the monastery. However, the monks protested against the campaign. Later security forces were called into the monastery by the work team to control the protesting monks. A number of monks were immediately detained and taken away to an unknown location by the security forces. There is no information on the condition and whereabouts of those detained.