Tashi Wangchuk ( Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: bkra shis dbang phyug) born in 1985 in Kyegudo, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture the former Tibetan province of Amdo the current province of Qinghai, is a Tibetan activist defending the teaching of the Tibetan language after he appeared in a New York Times video in 2015. [1] He was sentenced on 22 May 2018 in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu to five years prison for "incitement to separatism". [2] According to Amnesty International, "Tashi’s treatment exposes the ruthless lengths to which the Chinese authorities will go to silence those who ask the government to stop cultural assimilation." [3]
Tashi Wangchuk has been brought home healthy from prison on 28 January 2021 his lawyer Liang Xiaojun told. [4]
Tashi Wangchuk ( Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: bkra shis dbang phyug) born in 1985 in Kyegudo, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture the former Tibetan province of Amdo the current province of Qinghai, is a Tibetan activist defending the teaching of the Tibetan language after he appeared in a New York Times video in 2015. [1] He was sentenced on 22 May 2018 in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu to five years prison for "incitement to separatism". [2] According to Amnesty International, "Tashi’s treatment exposes the ruthless lengths to which the Chinese authorities will go to silence those who ask the government to stop cultural assimilation." [3]
Tashi Wangchuk has been brought home healthy from prison on 28 January 2021 his lawyer Liang Xiaojun told. [4]