UN Experts Raise Alarm Over Death of Tibetan Lama Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche in Vietnamese Custody

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Geneva, 8 October 2025: A group of United Nations human rights experts has expressed grave concern over the arrest, enforced disappearance, and subsequent death in custody of prominent Tibetan spiritual leader Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche, who reportedly died under suspicious circumstances while detained in Vietnam on 28 March 2025.

In two separate communications — AL VNM 4/2025 addressed to the Government of Vietnam and AL CHN 15/2025 addressed to the Government of the People’s Republic of China — the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Det...

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