Lu Kunchok Gyatso, a monk from Lamo Dechen monastery in Qinghai province in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, was arrested on December 18 and taken to Chentsa county detention centre. He was interrogated for hours about his book Fifty Four Days which documents his experiences of escape to India in 1994. He was later released but warned against publication or distribution of the book. Gyatso studied at Depung Domang monastery in South India before returning to Tibet in 2000.