Police held the Tibetan exiles, including around 50 monks and nuns, as soon as they arrived in the area close to the embassy's heavily guarded visa and trade section.

"We have 114 Tibetans currently in detention," senior police officer Hom Jung Chauhan told AFP.

The exiles chanted pro-Tibet slogans and waved the flag of Tibet's government-in-exile.

"I am protesting for the freedom of my country," 13-year-old Kumar Lama told AFP at the protest.

"I heard three days ago that some of my relatives were killed in southern Tibet. China should stop killing Tibetans," said the sixth-grader before being bundled into a waiting police van.

Kathmandu has seen almost daily protests since unrest erupted last month in Lhasa, capital of the Tibetan region, prompting a crackdown by Chinese security forces.

Nepal is home to more than 20,000 Tibetan refugees and around 2,500 still arrive annually in Kathmandu before heading to Dharamshala in northern India, home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile.

"The Tibetans have said that they have the right to protest, but due to our recognition of China's 'One China policy,' we cannot allow demonstrations," Modraj Dottel, Nepal's home ministry spokesman told AFP.

"We would like to request the protesters to stop using the Nepalese soil for their political demands."

"We will keep arresting them as long as they keep protesting," Dottel told AFP.

The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 following a failed uprising against the Chinese.

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