This story is from September 18, 2014

Tibetan students on hunger strike to protest police detention

Police crackdown on Tibetan students continued on Wednesday as M S University's guesthouse was turned into a fortress by the cops.
Tibetan students on hunger strike to protest police detention
VADODARA: Police crackdown on Tibetan students continued on Wednesday as M S University's guesthouse was turned into a fortress by the cops. Girl students were detained inside the guesthouse while their male counterparts were kept at the police headquarters in Pratapnagar. The Tibetan students began a hunger strike from Tuesday night alleging police misbehaviour.
The police, on the other hand, said that the detentions were made anticipating trouble. "The Tibetan students had sought permission to organize a rally on Wednesday. They said that about 100 students will participate in the rally. We detained 55 students as we thought that they might create trouble during Chinese president Xi Jinping's visit to Ahmedabad," said city police commissioner E Radhakrishnan.
On Tuesday night the cops had detained 26 girls and 29 boys from the MSU campus without informing the MSU officials. It was after the intervention of university officials that the girls were shifted to the guest house.
"All we had demanded was permission for a peaceful protest. Instead the cops picked us up forcibly. The police pushed us into their van and mistreated us while detaining us. We are on hunger strike to protest such treatment meted out to us," said Tenzin Tophel, president of Tibetan Students Association of Baroda that which has 120 student members from MSU.
Tophel said that the police had earlier promised to allow a peaceful rally at a designated area away from the venue in Ahmedabad. He added that Vadodara police came to their hostel on pretext of preparing identity cards for them.
On Wednesday, the cops picked up three other Tibetan girls along with an Indian student from Faculty of Fine Arts even as they were not staging any protest.
This group was also brought to the university guest house. Later, the police detained another group of students of Faculty of Fine Arts trying to protest outside the guest house against the illegal detention of their fellow students. The police even locked up entire guest house premises.
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