Protesting Tibetan monks, nuns detained by Nepali police

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.