Gedhun Choekyi Nyima

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima has been called the world's youngest political prisoner, and the sheer audacity of his case still floors me — a six-year-old boy, recognized by the Dalai Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama on May 14, 1995, and then vanished by the Chinese government just three days later. Three days. He'd be in his late thirties now, and nobody outside the Chinese state has been able to verify he's even alive. The CCP installed its own handpicked replacement, which is a level of religious and political overreach that's hard to wrap your head around. What strikes me most is how completely the world has allowed this to slide — he remains a symbol of everything broken about how Tibet is treated, a living (we hope) reminder that some injustices just quietly persist while the news cycle moves on.

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Name (English)

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima

Name (Japanese)

ゲンドゥン・チューキ・ニマ

Reading

げんどぅん・ちゅーき・にま

Born

April 25, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Lhari County, People's Republic of China

Occupation

political prisoner

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Snake

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun%20Choekyi%20Nyima
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%9E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q372526

Tags

• Lhari County
• political prisoner

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.