Published by: World Tibet Network News Wednesday, September 17, 1997

KATHMANDU, Sept 17 (AFP) - Nepalese border security police have arrested 32 Tibetans for illegal entry at the border post of Lamabagar in Dolakha district, 150 kilometres (miles) northeast of here, state-run news agency, the RSS said Wednesday.

According to Dolakha district administration office, the arrested Tibetans

will be remanded to the Department of Immigration in Kathmandu, it said.

They were arrested on Tuesday.

Tibetans cross over to Nepal from Tibet to travel to Dharamsala in India to meet their revered spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who has been living in India in self-exile since a failed revolt against Beijing in the early fifties.