Hundreds of police and armed Chinese military personnel were deployed in front of the main Tibetan temple, 'Jokhang,' in Tibet’s capital of Lhasa, on 10 December, which was both the 20th anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's reception of the Nobel Peace Prize, and World Human Rights Day.
The authorities also warned visiting foreign tourists not to take photos, threatening that their cameras would be confiscated.
This reaction come after another huge deployment of Chinese military in Nyakchu District of Lithang county, eastern Tibet, where hundreds of Tibetans staged a peaceful protest for the release of their spiritual leader, Trulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, whom the Chinese sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005.