UN 'Concerned' Over Nepal's Forcible Repatriation of Tibetan Refugees
Thursday, July 29 2010 @ 08:20 pm BST
Dharamshala: The United Nations has expressed deep concern over the Nepalese government's move to forcibly deporting three Tibetan refugees to Chinese border police in early June this year.
“It is a very serious issue and we are extremely concerned," Nini Gurung, spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency in Kathmandu, was quoted as saying by AFP.
The UN refugee agency said it had written to the Nepalese government about the incident in early June.
Two of the refugees, a Buddhist monk and a young woman, are serving jail sentence in Tibet after they were detained in western Nepal and handed over to Chinese security forces in Tibet, according to International Campaign for Tibet (ICT).
Nepal is duty-bound under the “Gentlemen's Agreement” with the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) to ensure the safe transit of Tibetan refugees through its territory," said ICT president Mary Beth Markey.






















