16. Oct 2009
Three Tibetans arrested in Sog county
(Tibet Post) The Tibet Post reports that police arrested three Tibetans in their early twenties in Sog (Chin: Suo) county, Nagchu (Chin: Naqu) prefecture, TAR, on 01 October 2009. Gyaltsen, Nyima Wangchuk, and Yeshe Namkha, residents of the same village, were taken to Nagchu county and have been held incommunicado since. The three youths are reportedly regular users of the internet, and the Tibet Post reports that police had been monitoring the men's online activities and QQ (messenger service) accounts, through which they shared photographs of and speeches by the Dalai Lama. They were also reportedly charged with maintaining contacts with the outside world via the internet.