Buddhist nuns held after anti-China protest in Nepal
mirror.co.uk     May 12, 2008            

Buddhist nuns were among 600 female protesters rounded up as police cracked down on anti-China demos in Nepal yesterday. ... The women were herded into buses and trucks and taken to detention centres before they even began to march against Chinese repression in Tibet.... [read full story]                

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