Beijing - More than 100 monks and laypeople have been arrested in a western Chinese county in a daisy chain of arrests and demonstrations by ethnic Tibetans, a Tibetan exile group said Friday.
The protests Thursday began when 22 monks demonstrated in a Rebkong County market in Qinghai province against the arrests Sunday of three monks for participating in a peace march, said the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, which has good contacts in Tibet.
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