(14 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Tibetan protesters arriving at Chinese diplomatic mission
2. Police in riot gear guarding visa office
3. Protesters with banners chanting slogans against China and the Olympics
4. Police beating the protesters who refuse to leave
5. Wide of protesters and police
6. Protester and police scuffling
7. Protesters with banner against Olympics
8. Police and protesters clashing
9. Police detaining protesters
10. Woman being detained, but holding back and clashing with police
11. Various of protesters and police
12. Police dragging protester
13. Detained protesters being taken away in truck
STORYLINE
Nepalese police clashed with Tibetan protesters and detained more than 500 of them on Thursday while breaking up a demonstration in front of the Chinese diplomatic mission in Katmandu.
More than 1,000 Tibetan exiles had gathered outside the Chinese Embassy visa office in Katmandu shouting slogans against China and
the Olympics.
They held banners that read "Shame on you IOC" and waved banners that read "Beijing 2008" with sketches of Chinese soldiers shooting at Tibetans.
Police had difficulty controlling the protesters but managed to take many of them away in trucks to detention centres.
More than 500 were detained, a police official said.
The area around the visa office in the heart of Katmandu is declared a no-protest zone and demonstrations and gatherings are prohibited.
Police said the protesters violated the prohibition orders.
Police briefly used bamboo batons to disperse the protesters. No one was seriously injured.
Tibetan exiles in both Nepal and India have been staging frequent protests to show their support for the unrest that erupted in Tibet's capital Lhasa in March.
Arrested Tibetan protesters in Katmandu are generally freed the same day.
The March protests in Lhasa were among the biggest in almost 50 years of Chinese rule.
Many Tibetans insist they were an independent nation before communist troops invaded in 1950, while Beijing says the Himalayan region has been part of its territory for centuries.

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