Dalai Lama supporters arrested in China

Scores of people have been arrested in a traditionally Tibetan area of China following calls for the return of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, reports said today.

Police and army reinforcements were sent to the town of Lithang in western Sichuan province following the incident on Wednesday at an annual horse festival that attracts thousands of people, according to the overseas monitoring group International Campaign for Tibet and the US government-supported Radio Free Asia.