Tenzin Dargye was found guilty of keeping “politically sensitive” content on his phone

Tibet Watch has learned that Tenzin Dargye, a Tibetan monk in his 30s from Warong Monastery, was arrested by Chinese authorities in September 2020. He was allegedly found with pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other information on his mobile phone that  labelled “politically sensitive” by the Chinese government. He holds a WeChat account under the name, Follower of Dalai (Tib: ཏཱ་ལའི་རྗེས་འབྲང་)

Tenzin Dargye

Tenzin Dargye is currently being held in Sershul County Detention Centre. More than a year of arbitrary detention, compounded by lack of information about his health, has left his family in a protracted uncertainty and caused deep worry There are also unconfirmed reports of some Tibetan monks being arrested from the same region. However, a source explained that severe communication restrictions in the region are causing immense difficulty in corroborating further detailed information.

Dargye is from Warong Monastery. It has around 250 monks and is located in Sershul (Ch:Shiqu) County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which is governed as part of Sichuan Province.