22. Aug 2010
Tibetan intellectual arrested
(TCHRD) Kalsang Tsultrim was arrested on 07 July 2010 at Dzoge (Chin: Ruo'ergai) county in Sichuan province. TCHRD reports that enquiries made by family members about the arrest yielded no results. Kalsang, better known by his pseudonym Gyitsang Takmig, has been accused of "committing political errors" and has been on the run for at least a year. He had composed and distributed 2,500 VCDs discussing Tibetan history and the current concerns of Tibetan people in Tibet. He also wrote a book about the same subject.