15 August 2008
Tibetan nun mishandled in detention in Nepal
(Tibet Sun) Sonam Deki, a 43-year-old nun, was severely beaten by police while she was detained at Boudha police station in Kathmandu following her participation in a demonstration in front of the Chinese embassy on 14 August 2008. Deki was among four Tibetans detained at the police station. She was handcuffed and beaten by three or four policemen who forcefully stuck their bamboo sticks in her mouth and hit her with rifle butts on her legs. She was also punched and kicked all over her body, causing profuse bleeding in the night, forcing the police to take her twice to hospital. She was later forced to consume painkillers by the police. She was released around 13:00 on 15 August. Tibetan volunteers rushed her to a hospital, and her condition is said to be serious.