Dhondup Wangchen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dhondup Wangchen
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Oct 17, 1974(1974-10-17)
Age	50
Birthplace	Haidong
Country	China
Birth City	Qinghai
Horoscope	Libra

Dhondup Wangchen Biography

Dhondup Wangchen is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on October 17, 1974 in Haidong, Qinghai, China. Dhondup Wangchen was born on the 24th of April 1974 located in Bayen located in the Tsoshar region of Qinghai province of China (formerly an area of Amdo). His family is farmers. Later, he relocated to the capital city of Lhasa. In Lhasa, Dhondup Wangchen took part in the pro-independence protests that were which was shut down by security forces which an acquaintance later described as crucial in their “political awareness”. In 1993 his cousin and he traversed the Himalayas to India to be blessed of Tibet’s spiritual leader exiled The Dalai Lama. Dhondup came back to Tibet soon afterward to work as an advocate to support Tibetans. Tibetan cause.

After Dhondup Wangchen’s arrest in March in March 2008, he was detained for some time in detention without charge at the Gonshang Hotel. Amnesty International reported that while there, Chinese security forces beat the suspect and stripped him of water, food and sleep.

On 28 December 2009, Dhondup Wangchen was sentenced to six year’s imprisonment for subversion, following a secret trial in Xining. On 7 January 2010, Filming for Tibet reported that he had been unable to appeal his sentence because he had been denied access to his lawyer until his right to appeal expired.

He was later moved to Xining City No. 1 Detention Centre, where he was held incommunicado until April 2009, when he was allowed to meet with his lawyer, Li Dunyong. Three months later, however, Li Dunyong dropped his case, reporting that he had been ordered to do so by judicial authorities. Another lawyer was reportedly threatened with the closing of his law firm if he chose to defend Dhondup Wangchen.

From August 2007 until the month of March, Dhondup Wangchen, along with Jigme Gyatso recorded interviews of 108 Tibetan individuals who spoke about the current political situation. All of whom were willing to have their photos taken on the camera. They gathered over forty hours of interviews captured by one camera. They had completed their filming and had just managed to smuggle footage out of Lhasa the Tibetan capital in Tibet, when riots broke out and spread to the areas that have a majority Tibetan population in China. In the response the riots, both Jigme Gyatso as well as Dhondup Wangchen were arrested on the 28th of March within Tong De, Qinghai Province.

Dhondup Wangchen Net Worth

Dhondup Wangchen is one of the richest Journalist from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dhondup Wangchen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dhondup Wangchen (born 17 October 1974) is a Tibetan filmmaker who was detained by the Chinese authorities in the year 2008 for charges relating to the documentary Leaving Fear Behind. Filmed with the senior Tibetan monk Jigme Gyatso, the film is comprised of interviews with everyday Tibetan people talking about fourteenth Dalai Lama, the Chinese government and in 2008 the Beijing Olympics as well as Han Chinese migrants to the region. After smuggling tapes from the interview out of Tibet However, Dhondup Wangchen and Jigme Gyatso were arrested during the 2008 Tibetan tensions.

in 2006 Dhondup Wangchen along with his their friend Jigme Gyatso, an experienced Tibetan monk, came up with the idea of a documentary involving ordinary Tibetan people about their opinions on their views of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government in the years before Beijing in 2008. Beijing Olympics. The documentary was named Leaving Fear Behind. The two collaborated with Dhondup Wangchen’s uncle Gyaljong Tsetrin, who remained in Switzerland. In preparation for the possibility of punishments by government officials from Chinese authorities, Dhondup Wangchen moved his wife, Llamo Tso, and their four children to Dharamsala, India.

The footage were taken to Switzerland, where colleagues at Dhondup Wangchen’s production company, Filming for Tibet, assembled it into Leaving Fear Behind. The 25-minute documentary constructed from Dhondup Wangchen and Jigme Gyatso’s footage showed ethnic Tibetans criticizing the choice of China to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, praising the Dalai Lama, and expressing dislike of ethnic Han migrants. The result was described by The New York Times as “an unadorned indictment of the Chinese government”. Dhondup Wangchen states in the documentary that “My aim for this film is not to make a famous or particularly entertaining film. This film is about the plight of the Tibetan people—helpless and frustrated.” The film premiered on the opening day of the Olympics and was clandestinely screened for foreign reporters in Beijing.

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His family stated that he has contracted Hepatitis B while imprisoned, and his health was said to be failing. In April 2010, he was transferred to Xichuan Labour Camp in Qinghai Province, where prisoners’ work reportedly includes the manufacture of bricks, concrete, and aluminum-alloy windows. On 6 April 2012, Amnesty International issued another appeal on Wangchen’s behalf warning that he was being denied needed medical treatment.

Facts & Trivia

Dhondup Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Dhondup Wangchen celebrates birthday on October 17 of every year.

In 2014, he received the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent.