07. Mar 2009
Website proprietor arrested in Gansu province
(TCHRD) TCHRD reports that Kunchog Tsephel, who runs a Tibetan language and culture website called Chomei (Eng: Lamp) (www.tibetcm.com/index.html) was arrested at his home in Gannan TAP (Chin: Kanlho), Gansu province on 26 February 2009. He is detained in one of the PSB detention centres in Gannan TAP. Tsephel started the website in 2005, in collaboration with the Tibetan poet Kyabchen Dedrol. The website was self funded and aimed to protect and promote the Tibetan arts and literature inside Tibet. The website has been under official supervision, and was shut down many times between 2007 - 2008.