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Kathmandu: Hundreds of protesters calling for independence for Tibet protested in Kathmandu on Friday, with police saying they arrested 118 demonstrators.
Protesters shouted pro-Tibet slogans and also burned an effigy of the Chinese President Hu Jintao near a consular office of the Chinese embassy in the Nepali capita.
They were then hauled into police vans and trucks and taken to detention centres. A police official said they would be freed later on Friday.
Tibetans have protested regularly in Nepal since the deadly Chinese crackdown on riots in Lhasa and other parts of Tibet in mid-March.
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