Nepal’s border police have on Apr 16 night arrested eight Tibetans, including six women, as they crossed into the country from Chinese occupied Tibet via Singate Bazaar transit point in Dolakha district, reported Himalayan Times online (Nepal) Apr 17.The report cited DSP Dhiraj Pratap Singh, in-charge of Dolakha police, as saying the Tibetans would be handed over to the country’s Department of Immigration (DoI).And it cited an official at DoI as saying they would either be deported to Tibet or imprisoned in the country or handed over to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

The report said more than 58 Tibetans had been arrested in the last two-and-half months along the border with occupied Tibet.

Source : Tibetan Review, Apr19, 2010