Tibetan who set self ablaze in Delhi dies
A Tibetan exile who set himself alight two days ago in New Delhi died yesterday and police detained at least 100 other activists protesting against Chinese President Hu Jintao's arrival in the city.
The Indian capital is home to thousands of Tibetans who have vowed to use Hu's visit to focus global attention on the Chinese government's alleged repression in Tibet.
Police detained scores of demonstrators, many of them female, at the same venue where protestor Jamphel Yeshi on Monday doused his clothes in fuel, lit himself and ran screaming down a road as his body was engulfed in flames.
Some Tibetan students said police were not allowing them to leave their hostels, while Tibetan residential areas were flooded with security forces ahead of the summit that President Hu is attending today.
"We are not putting Tibetans under house arrest (but) they have been instructed not to rally anywhere inside New Delhi while the summit is going on," police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told AFP.
"Protesters are being put into buses and removed because they have not had permission. There is also heavy deployment in places where Tibetans stay," he added.
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