This was done by forbidding Tibetans from recognizing the child identified by the Tibetan search team and the Dalai Lama. The unusual intensity of Chinese intervention in this case is evident from the fact that the selection process for the Panchen Lama was appropriated directly by the Communist Party rather than by an organ of the Chinese government. The child identified by the Dalai Lama and his family have been in some form of custody since May , and in November both the child and his parents were publicly vilified by the Chinese government through the official media.
The child appointed by the government has been required to appear in public and to make political statements supporting the state, despite the right to freedom from exploitation to which children are entitled in international law. After the court sentences the prisoner, he or she is then transferred to either a regular prison or a laogai reform-through-labor center to serve his or her sentence.
Over 98 percent of prisoners in China sent for trial are found guilty; the conviction rate in Tibet appears to be higher. Thus the custodial institutions in Tibet can be divided accordingly:. Sangyip is the term variously used to describe either a the complex of buildings including several prisons listed here as 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 , or as b Yitridu, one of the prisons within that complex see below. The terms Sangyip or more rarely Yitridu are used for a prison within the Sangyip complex or "forced job placement" center Tibetan: las-mi-ru-khag Chinese: jiuye , which is either a laojiao within the Sangyip complex, or the "forced job placement" center where some prisoners have to work after release, in this case repairing motor vehicles.
Seitru is the TAR regional detention center within the Sangyip complex for holding prisoners who have not been "arrested" i. State Security prisoners are believed to be held here. Outridu was formerly a laogai reform-through-labor center but is now a laojiao within the Sangyip complex. Most of the political prisoners were moved from here to Trisam in mid, perhaps because of a brief pro-independence protest by the Sangyip prisoners on May 20, Gutsa is the detention center for the prefecture of Lhasa.
It holds prisoners who are being investigated. They have been neither "arrested" [i. In it was reported to include a section for holding children after investigations were complete, as a kind of juvenile detention center, and may have included a women's re-education-through-labor section.
