Dharamshala, July 18 -- The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into allegations that security personnel at the Chinese Embassy in London used high-voltage stun batons, classified as prohibited weapons under UK law, to intimidate peaceful Tibetan demonstrators during a candlelight vigil, according to Phayul.

As reported by Phayul, the incident took place on the evening of July 3 outside the Chinese Embassy on Portland Place in central London, where members of the Tibetan community and human rights supporters had gathered to pay tribute to Lobga Rangzen, a Tibetan independence activist who died after self-immolating outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 2.

According to the report, widely circulated vi...