Tsering Tso detained for fourteen days
Following a complaint against police in November, Tsering Tso was handed an administrative detention sentence
Tibet Watch has learned that former political detainee Tsering Tso was held in administrative detention in late November and released last week.
Tsering Tso was detained on 29 November in Trika County, Tsolho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which is governed as part of Qinghai Province.
The official reason for Tsering Tso’s arrest was her activity on WeChat. An official warrant from the Trika Public Security Bureau, dated 29 November 2024, stated that Tsering Tso had repeatedly fabricated facts and posted false statements on WeChat Moments in November 2024.
On 20 November, Tsering Tso went to the Trika Public Security Bureau Exit and Entry Permit Hall where she requested a travel permit. According to Tsering Tso’s account, the police officer refused to grant her a travel permit. The reason given by the officer was that Tsering Tso had a criminal record.
Tsering Tso has been detained five times since 2017. The most recent occasion prior to this instance came in December 2023, when she was ”picking quarrels and provoking troubles” following three video clips she posted on social media of her police interrogation at a checkpoint in Drachen County, Nagchu City.
Tsering Tso then went to the Qinghai Provincial Petition Bureau to submit a petition. The bureau sent confirmation that the petition she submitted on 21 November had been received and she was told to not submit the same petition repeatedly within the period specified in the ”Regulations on Petition Work”. This period generally covers 60 days.
After she reported the police and posted videos in which she confronted them for their failure to grant a travel permit, Tsering Tso was arrested. Following evidence from the Internet Investigation Department, an administrative detention sentence of 14 days was imposed on her under Article 26, paragraph 4 of the ”Public Security Administrative Punishment Law of The People’s Republic of China”.
Tsering Tso was released on 13 December. Following her release, she wrote on WeChat: “Thank you for the leader’s retaliation against the whistleblower. The laws in Qinghai Province are different from those in China. Every time I complain reporting about the police’s illegal and disciplinary violation, the police use their power to arbitrarily arrest and detain for provoking trouble, intimidate, threaten, retaliate, and persecute the whistleblower.”
Information supplied by Tibet Watch
