24 February 2008
Arrested Tibetan handed over to China
(AFP; Phayul) Nepalese Police arrested a 27 year-old Tibetan man from the Tibetan Reception Centre in Kathmandu. The man, identified as Tsering Dhondup, is from Bayan county, in Qinghai province, (traditionally Amdo). Nepalese police arrested Dhondup without an arrest warrant and without informing the centre or the UNHCR, one of the partners running the centre. The arrest has been linked to an incident where a man was stabbed in Tibet. "This is the first time anybody has been arrested from here", an official from the centre said, on condition of anonymity. A senior Nepalese police officer confirmed that Nepali authorities had handed the man over to Chinese authorities. "The immigration department of Nepal sent him to the Nepal-China border in Kodari and handed him over to Chinese officials”, according to the officer. "I cannot give you more information", he said when asked why Dhundup was arrested.