TIBETANS HELD: As many as 100 Tibetans were arrested in northwest China after they demonstrated against the earlier detention of monks from a nearby monastery, according to witnesses and the India-based Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy. Local residents reached by telephone said the police beat and then arrested people at an open-air market in Tongren, a town in Qinghai, a western province bordering Tibet, after they defied orders to leave.
DOCTORS WALK: Doctors in the Mexican border city of Tijuana walked off their jobs for 12 hours to protest a wave of kidnappings against colleagues. About 300 doctors still wearing their white medical robes held a demonstration outside state government offices. Tijuana doctors association President Jose Patino says at least one doctor is kidnapped each week for ransom in the border city.
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