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110. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted to the Government information he
had received indicating that juveniles detained for political reasons in Gutsa
Detention Centre are held together with adult prisoners, rather than in the
juvenile section of the facility. In Drapchi prison, adults and juveniles
were reportedly kept together because separate juvenile sections did not
exist. Juveniles were allegedly forced to do hard labour and to work in
unsanitary conditions with adults in prisons, detention centres, reform
through labour detachments or re-education through labour detachments.
111. The Special Rapporteur communicated the cases of beatings of juveniles in
Tibet described in the following paragraphs.
112. Champa Tsondrue and Lobsang Choezin, both 17-year-old novice monks at
Ganden Choekhor monastery in Penpo Lhundrup county, were reportedly arrested
on 20 June 1994 after participating in a peaceful demonstration at the Barkhor
in Lhasa. They were allegedly beaten severely by security officials and taken
to Gutsa Detention Centre.
113. Tenzin Dekyong, a 16-year-old novice from Michungri nunnery, was
reportedly arrested on 13 March 1993 during a peaceful demonstration. She was
allegedly beaten and taken to Gutsa Detention Centre.
114. Pema Oeser, a 16-year-old novice form Nagar nunnery in Lhundrup county,
was reportedly beaten after being arrested with three other nuns on
17 August 1993 during a demonstration in Lhasa.
115. Dhundup Gyalpo, a 17-year-old monk, was reportedly arrested
on 26 June 1993 outside Gyaldon monastery, Lhundrup county, during a protest
against the arrest of a boy accused of posting pro-independence materials.
Dhundup Gyalpo was allegedly beaten by police and threw stones at them in
response. He was said currently to be serving a three-year administrative
sentence.
116. Sherab Ngawang, a 12-year-old novice from Michungri nunnery, was
reportedly arrested on 3 February 1992 during a peaceful demonstration in
Lhasa. She was taken to Gutsa Detention Centre and allegedly beaten. She was
sentenced in May 1992 to three years’ "re-education through labour" and sent
to Trisam Re-education through Labour Detachment.
117. In a letter transmitted on 4 October 1995, the Special Rapporteur advised
the Government that he had received additional information with respect to
Sherab Ngawang, according to which she had received treatment in more than one
hospital in Lhasa following the completion of her three-year sentence in
February 1995. The treatment was administered for injuries to her kidneys and
lungs sustained as the result of torture by four guards, who had allegedly
beaten her with electric batons and a plastic tube filled with sand, stamped
upon her and kicked her. The guards were said to have inflicted this
treatment in reprisal for her having made a face at them when they closed her
cell door one evening. She died on 15 May 1995 in Maldrogungkar, allegedly as
a result of injuries sustained from the beating. A Tibetan undertaker who
dismembered her body in accordance with traditional funeral rites reportedly
indicated that her kidneys bore signs of acute damage and marks of injury
appeared on her lungs.
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