25 January 2013. Today police arrested and manhandled protestors that were peacefully participating in a movement against impunity entitled “Occupy Baluwatar” which has been going on for a month. Rights activist Bhakti Sah got seriously injured from the police onslaught.
Demanding arrest of alleged perpetrators in different criminal cases and maintenance of rule of law, the motley group of demonstrators has been gathering at Baluwatar near Prime Minister’s quarter for a month every day from 9 am to 11 am. Today, the police came down hard on the demonstrators when they tried to enter the restricted area. 32 people were arrested and taken to Maharajgunj detention. They were released two hours afterwards.
The following were among the arrested:
- Ujjwal Thapa
- Kopila Adhikari (Advocate)
- Badri Prasad Bhusal (Lawyer)
- Bidushi Dangol (Journalist, The Kathmandu Post)
- Jagannath Lamichane
- Ishan Nakarmi
- Bishnu Adhikari (Third Gender from Blue Diamond Society)
- Pranika Koya
- Sabitri Shrestha (sister of Ujjan and Ganesh Shrestha)
- Baldeep Kumar Dallakoti
- Pukar Bam
- Manoj Sobidhya
- Uma Devi Adhikari (Mother of Saraswoti Subedi who died a mysterious death)
- Khadga Adhikari (Father of Saraswoti Subedi)
- Kamala Panthi (Journalist, Kantipur F.M.)
- Srijana Kafle
- Kamala Maharjan
- Balkrishna Adhikari
- Laxman Gautam
- Bhupesh Shrestha (son of Ujjain Shrestha who was killed by Maoists leader Balkrishna Dhungel)
- Pradeep Dallakoti
- Astha Sharma Pokhrel
- Pushpa K.C.
- Geeta Thapa
- Kabita Rana Magar
- Bhagwati Ghale Pariyar
- Mina Poudel
- Dr. Renu Rajbhandari
- Radha Poudel
- Lili Thapa
- Chandika Bhattarai
- Indira Aryal
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http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-008-2013
