Police fired tear gas on protesters in Lhasa who took to the streets for the second day, to protest the detention of monks involved in a street protest Monday. From The Guardian:
Around 500 monks were marching near a police station to demand the release of fellow monks who had been held after protests on Monday. Eyewitnesses told Radio Free Asia they were chanting “we want freedom” and “free our people or we won’t go back”.
The monks from the Sera monastery were surrounded by more than 1,000 armed police who fired tear gas into the crowd and used electric prods to disperse the protesters.
“There were probably a couple of thousand armed police personnel, wearing different uniforms. Police fired tear gas into the crowd,” said a witness who did not want to be identified.
See also reports from RFA and Reuters.
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