NEWS: 34 Tibetan Protestors Arrested in Nepal
by Danny Fisher
Both Reuters and the Agence France-Presse are reporting that 34 Tibetan protestors have been arrested in Nepal. This from the AFP:
- The Tibetans were stopped by police as they were driving to the border, and were arrested as they were continuing on foot, the witnesses said.
The activists waved placards and chanted anti-China slogans and said they were protesting Chinese suppression of Tibetan people.
“We are going to keep them in police custody until we hear from our headquarters,” said police officer Abhaya Joshi.
I'm not sure if it was related to this incident or not, but one of my classmates host-parents were both arrested recently for protesting here. The father got a bad black eye it seems. They're both home now, though.