Tashi Wangchuk (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: bkra shis dbang phyug) born in 1985 in Kyegudo, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture the former Tibetan province of Amdo the current province of Qinghai, is a Tibetan activist defending the teaching of the Tibetan language after he appeared in a New York Times video in 2015.
[1] He was sentenced on 22 May 2018 in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu to five years prison for "incitement to separatism".
[2] According to Amnesty International, "Tashi’s treatment exposes the ruthless lengths to which the Chinese authorities will go to silence those who ask the government to stop cultural assimilation.
"[3] Tashi Wangchuk has been brought home healthy from prison on 28 January 2021 his lawyer Liang Xiaojun told.
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