(10 Mar 2008)
Kathmandu, Nepal
1. Wide of Tibetans protest at Boudhanath shrine chanting slogans
2. Protester with slogan written on his chest reading: (English) "Free Panchen Lama"
3. Youths wearing headbands reading: "Free Tibet" and orange bibs reading: "China lies, Tibetan dies. Stop genocide in Tibet."
4. Riot police walking with protesters
5. Police pushing female protester against vehicle then onto ground
6. Same female protester shouting at police, another female protester pushes police
7. Various of police arresting protesters
8. Arrested protesters being taken away in police vehicle
New Delhi, India
9. Tilt down of Tibetan protestor wearing bandages and holding Olympic torch stained with 'blood' to symbolise the alleged repression of the Tibetans by the Chinese government
10. Wide of march, protester holding banner reading: (English) "Where there is no value for human rights there should be no Olympics in China"
11. Security behind barricade
12. Protesters chanting; UPSOUND: (English) "What do we want? We want freedom."
13. Mid of woman crying
14. Tilt-up from protestors wearing bandages to wide of gathering holding banners and chanting; UPSOUND: (English) "Release release Panchen Lama"
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jigme Yeshi, Tibetan Youth Congress:
"What we want to show from the torch as well as from the people who are wearing bandages is that the IOC (International Olympic Committee) has done a great injustice by giving the permission, the right, to China to hold the Olympics. So according to us, according to the Tibetans, what we think is China has committed a huge amount of blunders, human rights abuses, it has occupied our own motherland Tibet."
16. Various of protesters enacting a street play showing the alleged repression of Tibetan people by the Chinese regime
STORYLINE:
Nepalese police fired tear gas and beat up hundreds of Tibetan protesters who threw bricks and stones during a protest in Kathmandu on Monday, officials said.
The protesters were demonstrating against Beijing's hold on the Himalayan region and China's hosting of the Olympic Games.
At least ten protesters were detained near Boudhanath, one of the biggest Buddhist shrines in the country, where the demonstrations were held, said a police official who asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Every year, some three-thousand Tibetans cross into Nepal, mainly through four passes across the Himalayas on their way to Dharmsala.
Meanwhile, in neighbouring India hundreds of exiled Tibetans marched in the capital, New Delhi, on Monday, to protest against the upcoming Beijing Olympics and to mark the anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet that forced the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, into exile in 1959.
Jigme Yeshi from the Tibetan Youth Congress told AP Television the International Olympic Committee "has done a great injustice" in allowing Beijing to host the 2008 Olympic Games.
"According to us, according to the Tibetans, what we think is China has committed a huge amount of blunders, human rights abuses, it has occupied our own motherland Tibet," said Yeshi.
Beijing maintains that Tibet is historically part of China, but many Tibetans argue the Himalayan region was virtually independent for centuries.

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