On July 22, 2015, Australia's New South Wales Police arrested eight Tibetan protesters who stormed the Chinese consulate in Sydney, including one person who scaled a flagpole to pull down the Chinese flag. The group comprising fifty Tibetan students and former political prisoners were holding a peaceful protest outside the consulate's gates to protest 65-year old  Buddhist monk Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s death in prison around late June 2015. When the gates opened to let a truck through, several protesters ran into the forecourt. They were charged with trespassing.