Dalai Lama wraps up contentious visit to France

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

PARIS (AFP) — The Dalai Lama wrapped up on Saturday a visit to France that fuelled tensions between Paris and Beijing and saw four people arrested during a pro-Tibetan protest.

The Tibetan spiritual leader left the French capital on a flight bound for New Delhi after a 12-day visit during which he accused China of continuing repression against the Tibetan people during the Olympics.

His departure came on the same day three photojournalists, including one from Agence France-Presse, and a demonstrator were arrested during a pro-Tibetan protest outside the Chinese embassy in Paris.

The photojournalists were held and questioned by police after they photographed pro-Tibetan demonstrators unfurling a banner that read "China Lies - Tibetans Die" on a building next...

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