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Pro-Tibet protestors arrested in Nepal

Nepal - Protests held
Nepal - Protests held

More than 100 protestors have been arrested in Nepal after police scuffled with demonstrators in a continued crackdown on pro-Tibet rallies in the capital.

Kathmandu has seen almost daily protests by exiled Tibetans since a riot broke out in the Tibetan capital Lhasa on 14 March followed by demonstrations in other Tibetan areas of China.

About 200 protestors, including monks and nuns, emerged from a narrow lane outside a Chinese consulate office in Kathmandu, shouting slogans.

Police chased them and hauled them into waiting vans and trucks.

Many Tibetans are furious over the crackdown against protestors in Tibet and resent China's decades-old rule of the Himalayan region.

Landlocked and impoverished Nepal considers Tibet as part of China, a key donor to economic development projects, and has banned anti-China protests.

Yet regular protests have been organised in Kathmandu by more than 20,000 Tibetans who have been living in Nepal since fleeing their homeland in 1959.