Hundreds Demonstrate in NepalMore than 200 people demonstrated on Wednesday against a new law that allows Nepalese authorities to detain people and ban organizations."This is dictatorship," shouted the protesters from the Democratic Youth Forum. They marched through the streets of Katmandu, the capital, to the central secretariat that houses government offices. Police stopped them at the gate, but no scuffles were reported. Police arrested six leftist protesters when they tried to organize another march on the outskirts of Katmandu. They included Lilamani Pokhral, a lawmaker from the United People's Front. The new law, announced on Tuesday, empowers the administrative heads of Nepal's 75 districts to put under house arrest or limit the movements to a certain area of suspects in the name of national security. The government earlier this month arrested the editor and two publishers of the leading Kantipur Daily newspaper on charges of treason for publishing an article urging the army to stop protecting the royal house as protests erupted after a palace massacre on June 1. The three were freed on bail last week. |
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