Mizzima News

New Delhi - Four Burmese journalists, covering a demonstration by Tibetan activists against the Beijing Olympics during the torch relay in New Delhi were arrested on Thursday.

Indian police on Thursday following a scuffle with nearly 2,000 protesters, arrested over 50 Tibetans, who staged a protest during the Olympic torch relay held at Rajpath near India Gate and Parliament building at about 2 p.m.

Four Burmese journalists - Khin Maung Latt, Myo Myint Aung, Kyaw Thura and Nay Lin – who were covering the protests, were among those arrested by Indian policemen.

The four Burmese journalists who along with nearly 300 Tibetans are detained at Tuglak Road police station are to be produced in court on Friday, one of the detained Burmese journalists said.

Burmese pro-democracy activists in New Delhi on Thursday joined over 2,000 Tibetans, who shouted slogans like "Stop killing Tibetan people", "Free Tibet", "Long live Dalai Lama" and conducted a mock relay carrying the Olympic torch from Old Delhi to Jantar Mantar in downtown Delhi.

Reports said a cordon of at least 18,000 security personnel and a series of barbed wire barricades hemmed in the Olympic torch relay route near India Gate and the Parliament building.

The Olympic torch which started its journey from Athens in Greece arrived in New Delhi on Thursday and left for Bangkok in Thailand the same day.