Tibetan exiles scuffle with Indian police at a protest outside of the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, on the eve of the anniversary of the Tibetan uprising in 1959, in New Delhi, March 9, 2011 (AP/Mustafa Quraishi).NEW DELHI, India - Police detained around three dozen Tibetan exiles protesting outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi to mark the anniversary of the failed uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile in India, a police official said Wednesday.
The protesters, wearing yellow T-shirts and waving red and blue Tibetan flags, chanted "Free Tibet" and "We want freedom," as they rushed toward the Chinese embassy. They were blocked by Indian police officers, dragged to a bus and taken to a nearby police station for questioning. A law prohibits more than four people from gathering in the area around the embassy.
"We don't have freedom in Tibet. Our brothers and sisters in Tibet are highly oppressed under the cruel Chinese rule," shouted Tenzin, a Tibetan activist who gave only his first name. The protesters were likely to be released later Wednesday, said Rajender Singh, head constable at the police station where the Tibetans were detained. More>>
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