Choegyal Wangpo / 曲嘉旺波 — Media Profile & Archive
Person profile: Choegyal Wangpo / 曲嘉旺波.
Case chronology
Late August / early September 2019: Human Rights Watch reported that Choegyal Wangpo was detained after police searched a cellphone he had left in a Lhasa café and found contacts and earthquake-relief communications with Tibetans in Nepal.
2019–2020: HRW reported a raid on Dranak village and Tengdro Monastery, mass detentions, and the continued detention of Choegyal Wangpo and three other monks near Shigatse.
September 2020: HRW, CHRD, and TCHRD report a secret trial by the Shigatse Intermediate People’s Court. Choegyal Wangpo received 20 years; Lobsang Jinpa 19; Norbu Dondrub 17; Ngawang Yeshe 5. The charges were not disclosed.
2023–2025: TCHRD reported the verdicts absent from China’s national court-verdict database; CHRD reported Choegyal Wangpo’s place of incarceration and current whereabouts as unknown.
August 31, 2026: Rights Defense Network Issue 131 listed 曲嘉旺波 in the 20-year-sentence group.
Sources
Human Rights Watch, July 6, 2021: https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/07/06/prosecute-them-awesome-power/chinas-crackdown-tengdro-monastery-and-restrictions
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, December 9, 2025: https://www.nchrd.org/2025/12/choegyal-wangpo-%e6%9b%b2%e5%98%89%e6%97%ba%e6%b3%a2/
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, July 23, 2023: https://tchrd.org/2023/07/23/records-of-politically-motivated-verdicts-against-tibetans-removed-from-chinese-national-databases/
Rights Defense Network Issue 131: https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/08/20268311311638.html
Evidentiary notes
No public PRC verdict or official state-media account was located. Charges, current prison location, and current whereabouts remain unknown; no release date is calculated.