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Protesting Tibetan monks, nuns detained by Nepali police
Dozens of protesting Tibetan monks and nuns were detained by Nepali police as they marched along the border to protest a crackdown on anti-China demonstrators earlier this year.
- Agencies
- Published: 14:56 July 1, 2008
Chaku: Dozens of protesting Tibetan monks and nuns were detained by Nepali police as they marched along the border to protest a crackdown on anti-China demonstrators earlier this year.
Police gathered the monks and nuns into a truck from Chaku, near the Friendship Bridge in Liping, the only entry-point into Tibet.
Twenty-three monks, 17 nuns and two Tibetan men were detained.
The monks who were on a weeklong march from Kathmandu did not resist the arrest.
The march was the latest in a series of protests by the exiled Tibetans in Nepal since deadly anti-government riots in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in mid-March.
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