Indian police arrested 17 Tibetan exiles Saturday as they attempted to march from a remote Himalayan region in northern India into Tibet, officials said.
The group was arrested in Ladakh, an area that borders Tibet and is home to about 7,000 Tibetan exiles, said M.K. Bhandari, a senior local official.
The group was arrested for violating a law that prohibits entry into sensitive border areas, Bhandari said.
The arrests came amid reports of ongoing unrest in China's Tibetan areas.
Police fired on hundreds of protesters in a Tibetan area of western China, killing eight people, overseas activist groups said. State media reported one …
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