Longest Serving Tibetan Political Prisoner

  • Longest Serving Tibetan Political Prisoner Takna Jigme Passes Away at 91

    Longest Serving Tibetan Political Prisoner Takna Jigme Passes Away at 91

    Takna Jigme Sangpo was the longest-serving political prisoner of Tibet, having spent 37 years in a prison near Lhasa. He passed away in the morning of October 17, 2020 at an elderly care home in Turbenthal, Switzerland, where he had been based since receiving political asylum in 2003. Tibetans and Tibet supporters across the world…