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Police detain Tibetan attempting to storm Chinese embassy in New Delhi

tibet & chinaNew Delhi, August 8 : Police detain hundreds of angry Tibetan refugees attempting to storm Chinese embassy in New Delhi.

Police detained hundreds of angry Tibetan refugees attempting to storm Chinese embassy in New Delhi on Friday, coinciding their protest with the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing.

Scores of Tibetans shouting anti-China slogans braved heavy rains to protest against the Olympics being staged by China.

Tibetans continue to protest in Nepal against China

tibetKathmandu, August 8 : Tibetans continued with another day of anti-Chinese protests outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu on Friday, hours before the Olympic Games were due to start in Beijing.

The Tibetans gathered outside the embassy early in the day as police tried to clear them away. Police hauled the protesters away in trucks but more protesters turned up chanting anti-Chinese slogans over a crackdown in their Himalayan homeland months ago. Among those protesting were monks and nuns.

Tibetan exiles march in New Delhi

Tibet ExileNew Delhi, August 7 : Scores of Tibetan exiles marched in here today against Chinese occupation of their homeland.

Protesters holding banners with messages like ''Save Tibet'' and ''Our Struggle is for Freedom and Justice'' and wearing headbands with ''Free Tibet'' written on them marched down the roads in New Delhi.

With Olympics beginning on Friday in Beijing, Tibetans are trying to reinvigorate their freedom movement and protest against what they see as China''s illegal occupation of their homeland.

The protesters termed the Chinese hosting of the Olympics as an injustice to the Tibetans.

Tibetans exiles march to mourn the deaths in Lhasa ahead of Olympics

tibetDharamsala, August 7 : Maroon robed Buddhist monks led thousands of Tibetan exiles on Thursday as they marched through the streets of Dharamsala to mourn the deaths of fellow countrymen in Lhasa earlier this year.

Many of the Tibetan exiles wore black clothes and tied black bandanas to mourn what they said were brutal killings of protesters in Tibet in March.

As the Olympics approach, Tibetans are trying to reinvigorate their freedom movement and protest against what they see as China''s illegal occupation of their homeland.

Tibetan hunger strikers arrested in India

New Delhi - Indian police arrested six Tibetan activists who have been on a hunger strike for nine days to protest the upcoming Beijing Olympics and the "occupation" of Tibet by China, a Tibetan Yo

Tibetan exiles on indefinite hunger strike in India

New Delhi - Six Tibetan activists entered the second week of a hunger strike in New Delhi to protest the upcoming Beijing Olympics and "occupation" of Tibet by China, a spokesman said Monday.

The activists from the Tibetan Youth Congress staged their protest at the capital's Jantar Mantar area in the central business district of Connaught Place.

"The hunger strike has entered its eighth day today," the group's vice president, Dhondup Dorjee Shokda, said. "Their health has deteriorated rapidly as they have lost over 11 kilograms on an average."

He said the activists had so far resisted pleas by local police to take them to hospital.

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