Tibetans detained for holding anti-China protests

Scores of Tibetan activists on Monday staged a protest outside Nehru Memorial Library where a seminar on Sino-India relations was organised by the ruling Congress party.

Scores of Tibetan activists on Monday staged a protest outside Nehru Memorial Library where a seminar on Sino-India relations was organised by the ruling Congress party.

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Around 50 protestors raised slogans against China in front of the Nehru Memorial Library in Teen Murti Bhavan around noon, a senior police official said. They have been detained and taken to Chanakyapuri Police Station.

The seminar was attended by senior Chinese Communist Party leaders, including Polit Bureau member Zhou Yongkang.

Tibetans have been demanding independence from China.