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The standing Committee of ATPD is deeply disturbed by reports suggesting that 18 Tibetan asylum seekers in the custody of Nepalese police were forced onto Chinese Embassy vehicles and driven back to Tibet

Kelsang, 22, says that he left his monastery in Tibet after "Chinese officials asked us to denounce the revered Dalai Lama and introduced practices in our religion that were not acceptable to us".

China today opposed "double standards" on the issue of combating illegal immigration and said that the recent repatriation of 18 Tibetans from Nepal should not be politicised.

Dorjee Damdoo Nargee trekked through the snow-covered Himalaya Mountains for 20 days in the middle of winter to escape Communist Chinese oppression in his native Tibet.

A unique travelling exhibition detailing contemporary Tibetan history and prospects for the future will be shown for the first time in London at The Air Gallery, 32 Dover Street (tube: Green Park), from June 17 to 27, 2003.

Following the United States, Great Britain also "deplored" last week's deportation of 18 Tibetan refugees home, the British Embassy said Tuesday. "The UK deeply regrets the absence of any recognised process or credible justification

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Demonstrators met in front of the Chinese Embassy on Monday, June 2nd , from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to protest the deportation of 18 Tibetan refugees back to Tibet in Chinese custody. The refugees were deported despite strong

Nepal Buddhist Welfare Association express grave concern about the fate of 18 Tibetan Asylum seekers deported to China by Nepal government, the deportees including eight unaccompained minors, some as 13.

More than 14,000 people gave a rapturous standing ovation to the exiled Tibetan leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, after the conclusion of his talk on "Non-violence and Peace" this evening here at the popular Globe Theatre.