Indian police arrest Tibetan marchers

Posted by editor on Mar 13, 2008 in Global Contributors, Media Coverage, SFT Global | 0 comments

Reuters
March 13, 2008By Abhishek Madhukar

DEHRA, India - Indian police arrested around 100 Tibetans on Thursday, dragging them into waiting police vans, as they tried to march to the Chinese border to press claims for independence and protest the Beijing Olympics.

The marchers, mainly Tibetans but including a few foreigners, were arrested one by one after they sat down on a road to protest police barring their march from continuing from Dehra, more than an hour’s drive from Dharamsala. (more…)



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