Tibetan Monks interrupt a media tour in Western China whilst shouting about their lack of human rights. They also threw prayer shawls over the shoulders of journalists.

It was an organized tour for Chinese and foreign media in Xiahe.
Suddenly Fifteen Tibetan Buddhist monks interrupted the tour demanding the return of the Dalai Lama and yelling that they had no human rights.
The monks, carrying a banned Tibetan flag, came from the Labrang monastery.
They rushed across a plaza to the group of 20 media.

[Monk, Unidentified]: Male
"The Dalai Lama has to come back to Tibet. We are not asking for Tibetan independence, we are just asking for human rights. We have no human rights now."

The monks say eight of them are still being held by authorities, and that plainclothes agents of China's paramilitary armed police force were stationed throughout Xiahe.
Some of the monks threw prayer shawls over the shoulders of photographers.

Xiahe is one of the biggest centres of the Dalai Lama's Gelukpa branch of Buddhism.
Late last month, Chinese authorities were embarrassed by a similar incident at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.