(16 Apr 2008)
Katmandu, Nepal - 16 April 2008
1. Wide of protesters with flags and banners, chanting slogans
2. Policemen arresting protesters
3. Close-up of Tibetan monk shouting slogans in police van, van drives away
4. Policemen arresting Tibetan monks
5. Various of police arresting protesters
6. Low angle shot of police arresting protester
7. Policemen arresting Tibetan monks
8. Wide of protesters and police van
9. Police arresting protesters
10. Arrested protesters driving by in police van, woman protester shouting (English) "Stop killing"
New Delhi, India - 16 April 2008
11. Tibetan protesters running towards lawns of Chinese embassy
12. Policeman grabbing running protester
13. Protesters spray-painting slogans on road
14. Pan of protesters on road, protesters holding Tibetan flags
15. Protester holding posters against the Olympic torch relay in India
16. Protesters shouting slogans, pan of protester being led to police van
17. Various of protesters being put into police van
18. Protesters in police van shouting slogans
19. Various of protesters moving on lawns, shouting slogans
20. Policeman taking away protester
21. Policemen leading protesters onto bus
STORYLINE:
About 80 Tibetan protesters, many of them young monks and women, were arrested on Wednesday as they staged an anti-Beijing demonstration near the Chinese Embassy in the Nepalese capital, Katmandu.
The group shouted "stop killing in Tibet" and other slogans before being dragged into waiting trucks by riot police and driven away.
A police officer said about 80 were detained.
Protests in the Nepalese capital occurred almost daily following China's crackdown on rioting in Tibet last month, but were temporarily halted last week during the country's national elections.
Members of the 20-thousand strong Tibetan community in Nepal have focused on the Chinese Embassy and the United Nations building for their protests.
Nepal has been criticised by international rights groups and the United Nations for alleged use of excessive force against the protesters.
Nepal's government had said it would not allow any demonstrations against friendly nations, including China.
In the past three days, the police used a minimum amount of force to round up the protesters.
The protesters have been generally released on the same day of their arrest.
Meanwhile, about 100 protesting Tibetan exiles tried to breach a security cordon around the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on Wednesday, a day ahead of the Beijing Olympics torch run in the Indian capital.
AP Television footage showed protesters being pushed back by Indian police and about two dozen being arrested and taken away in police vans.
Another 50 were forced back on to the buses in which they had arrived.
It was not immediately clear whether they were being arrested or detained.
The protesters, some of whom were carrying Tibetan flags, chanted "We want freedom, we want justice" and spray-painted "No Olympics in China" on a street near the embassy.
Police say more than 5-thousand policemen have already been deployed to prevent chaotic protests during the torch run on Thursday like those held by Tibetan independence supporters in London and Paris.
Indian authorities have shortened the torch route from seven kilometres (four miles) to three kilometres (1.8 miles) to help prevent any disturbances, a police officer said on Tuesday.
The Olympic torch, to be carried by top Indian athletes and some Bollywood stars, will pass through a high security zone from the president's palace to India Gate, a war memorial in New Delhi.
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