Detained activist Sonam Wangchuk has said that he is prepared to remain in jail until an independent judicial inquiry is ordered into the deaths of four persons in police firing during protests in Leh on September 24.

Wangchuk’s lawyer, Mustafa Haji, and his elder brother, Ka Tsetan Dorjey Ley, met him on Friday at Jodhpur Central Jail. They posted a message from him on social media on Sunday.

“I am doing well, both physically and mentally and thank everyone for their concern and prayers,” the activist said in his message. “My heartfelt condolences to the families of those people who lost their lives and my prayers with people who are injured and are arrested.”

Wangchuk was arrested under the National Security Act in Leh on September 26, two days after four persons were killed in po

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