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Nepal Turns Over Tibetans To UNHCR
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 23, 2011: the Nepal Police have turned over altogether 23 Tibetans arrested in Barabise of Sindupalchowk district, north-central Nepal on September 11 and in Bajura district in far-western Nepal on September 14, 2011 for crossing the Nepal-Tibet border on the way to India to UNHCR.
Nepal and Tibet have a border of 1,414 km with 34 major passes. Each year, thousands of Tibetans cross over the border to go to India to visit their spiritual leader Dalai Lama risking their lives to the natural difficulties and to the possible arrest by the Nepal Police and the Chinese Police patrolling the border.
Rights groups have said that the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu has urged the government of Nepal to turn over the Tibetans to the Chinese authorities for their return to Tibet while Tibetan exile rights groups have urged the government of Nepal to honor the U.N. Torture Convention that prohibits the forcible return of refugees to the country where they might be tortured.
Hearing on the petition filed by the Nepalese Human Rights Activist concerning the Tibetans arrested by the Nepal Police, the Supreme Court of Nepal has ordered the government of Nepal not to turn over the 23 Tibetans to the Chinese Authorities.
