Tibetan exiles barred from handing protest petition to Chinese embassy in New Delhi

AP
March 31, 2008

Avaaz Petition with 1.4 Million Signatures (Photo by Tenzin Dasel/Phayul.com)NEW DELHI: Indian police barred several hundred Tibetans from marching Monday to the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, where they planned to submit more than 1.4 million names from an Internet petition calling on China to act with restraint in Tibet.

 

About 300 demonstrators gathered in downtown New Delhi with 80 boxes containing the names from the online petition, said Tenzin Choedon, an organizer of the protest. (more…)



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