Gendun Phuntsok, 18, a Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery, was arrested after staging a lone protest in Ngaba town. Phuntsok marched into the main street carrying a huge portrait of the Dalai Lama adorned with a yellow traditional scarf, and calling for “freedom and equal rights for Tibetans in Tibet”. He was arrested within minutes and his whereabouts are not known. Phuntsok comes from Chuglay Gapma of Cha village in Ngaba county.