Tibetans protest outside Chinese embassy in India

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Source: Associated Press

NEW DELHI (AP) — Nine Tibetan students were detained by police Monday after they stripped and chained themselves to barbed wire fencing outside the Chinese Embassy to protest the sentencing to death of two Tibetans by a Chinese court, police said.

Police used wire cutters to remove the chains, bundled the protesters in their underwear into vans and whisked them away. They would likely be produced in a New Delhi court later Monday, said a police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity as she was not authorized to talk to reporters.

Organizers said that 10 Tibetan students participated in the protest, but police only detained nine. It was unclear what happened to the other protester.

Tibetan exiles have stepped up demonstrations since last month, observing the 50th anniversary of Beijing's crushing of a Tibetan uprising that led to the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in the northern Indian town of Dharmsala.



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