Police last week took into custody a Tibetan monk believed to have been involved in a March 20 protest against Chinese authorities.On Aug.28, Kalsang Gyatso, 28, a monk at the Bora monastery, was detained and taken away from a bathhouse in Tsoe town.Gyatso, with permission from senior monks who were supervising a retreat, had gone to the nearby town and was bathing with friends when he was detained.The police, who were not in uniform, asked which of the men was Kalsang Gyatso, but his friends refused to identify him.The police then pointed directly at him, overpowered his friends, and took him away in a police vehicle.

When family members later sought word from county and prefecture offices on Kalsang Gyatso’s condition and place of detention,no information was given to them.

The day after Kalsang Gyatso was detained, a group of 30 county, prefecture, and provincial-level officials, together with a press team, arrived at Bora monastery to conduct a “legal education” session for the monks, the source said.