-Bitter Winter
Well-known as author and lecturer, he was sentenced to ten years in November 2021.
Human rights activists are denouncing on social media that a well-known Tibetan monk’s health is seriously deteriorating as a result of torture he is subjected to in Lhasa’s Qushui Prison.
Go Sherab Gyatso is a monk born on September 9 , 1976, in Khashi village, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, an autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province that has a majority of Tibetan inhabitants. It is also known as the world capital of self-immolation by Tibetans who set themselves on fire to protest CCP oppression.
Go Sherab Gyatso became a monk in the autonomous prefecture, and later went to Lhasa to continue his Buddhist studies. He became well-known as an author and lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism in Sichuan and beyond.
He was first arrested in 1998, as he refused to participate in forced political indoctrination imposed on Buddhist monks in Sichuan, and sentenced to three and a half years in jail. He was abused in prison and contracted chronic lung disease.
In 2008, during the crackdown on Tibetan monks and activists aimed at preventing protests during the Beijing Olympics, he was arrested again and kept in prison for another year. Click here to read more.