Rev. Danny Fisher

Via Phil Ryan over at the Tricycle Editors’ Blog: In a move interpreted by many as their way of putting a stop to anti-Chinese protests, Nepal’s announced Thursday that they would begin to deporting Tibetan exiles living illegally in their country, Reuters reports. More than 20,000 Tibetans presently live in Nepal. Home Ministry Spokesman Modraj Dotel told Reuters that Nepalese police has already detained 106 Tibetans to see if they had necessary papers to establish their refugee status. While most long-standing exiles have been granted refugee status in Nepal, most new refugees are now sent on to India. This new action would send Tibetans back to Tibet, where, as Phil says, they would almost certainly be “condemned to imprisonment and torture.”