26. Feb 2010
Seventeen more Tibetans arrested in Nepal
(Myrepublica) Nepali police arrested seventeen Tibetans in a border region for crossing into Nepali territory. They had come to Nepal via the Lamabagar border point. Among those arrested, 10 are women and seven men. This brings the total number of Tibetans caught clandestinely crossing into Nepali territory to 51 in seven months. Nepali authorities said they would be handed over to the department of immigration in Kathmandu. The arrested Tibetans wanted to go to India via Nepal to meet their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, police said.