Nepal Detains Hundreds Of Women In Tibet Protest

Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) - Nepalese police have detained around 360 Tibetan women protesting, including several Buddhist nuns, in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu on Sunday.

The women were protesting against the Chinese crackdown in Tibet, according to the reports.

The protesters held three separate all-women rallies in Katmandu on Sunday for the first time in Kathmandu, but were stopped by police.

Those detained were wearing black armbands in their rallies across the capital supporting the cause of free Tibet and shouting "We want free Tibet".

Some of them wept as others were dragged along the street by police into vans to take them to detention centers.

The reports indicated that the protesters were planning to carry out a silent march to demonstrate against Chinese restrictions in Tibet but the security forces quickly detained the first group of crowd preparing to rally.

"Just to create what is happening in Tibet we wanted to do a silent march here, a peaceful silent march," Doma Tsomo, who was among the protesters, told AP news agency.

"Unfortunately even before we could start police started arresting people."

More than 20,000 Tibetans estimated are living in Nepal, considering it their home, after many of them fled their homeland consequent to the failed uprising in 1959 and the subsequent crackdown by China, according to BBC News.

Police said the protesters would be freed later, according to the reports.