From: Tibet Information Network, Jun 10, 1995

Two French women were detained and strip-searched by Chinese police in Lhasa last month because they were believed to be carrying letters from Tibetans. The two women and a Danish man were confined to their hotels for up to six days before being made to sign confessions and told to leave the country.

One of the women, a student from Paris, Francoise Robin, was stopped by police at Lhasa airport on 29th April as she was about to board the twice-weekly plane to Nepal. In the first reported case of this kind, she was strip-searched by women police, who seized two letters which friends had given to her to take to Nepal.