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Monks Staged Bold Protest in Tibet

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN – 35 minutes ago

BEIJING (AP) — Buddhist monks staged two protests in the capital of
Tibet this week in a bold, public challenge to China’s rule, though a
senior official said Tuesday that no one was arrested.

Champa Phuntsok, an ethnic Tibetan who heads the Tibetan regional
government, said authorities briefly detained monks from Drepung
monastery outside Lhasa who tried to march to the city on the
anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule in 1959.

He said they were released shortly afterward after being questioned and
“counseled.”

“It’s really nothing,” he told The Associated Press in Beijing, where he
was attending the annual legislative session. “Everything is really great.”