Nepali police detain Tibetan refugees
Updated
Police in Nepal says they have detained 125 Tibetan refugees, including nuns and monks, for trying to storm a Chinese consular office in Kathmandu.
More than 20-thousand Tibetans live in Nepal and many of the exiles have protested regularly in Kathmandu, calling for the freedom of Tibet and against the Chinese crackdown on demonstrations in the Himalayan region in March.
New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch says Nepal is cracking down on the Tibetan protesters under pressure from China, violating their human rights with arbitrary arrests, sexual abuse of women and beatings in detention.
Beijing rejected the charges as "groundless accusations".
Protesters said they want an "immediate end to brutal suppression of Tibetans in Tibet and unconditional release of all Tibetan political prisoners".
A police official says the detained exiles will be freed later today.
