KATHMANDU: Nepalese home ministry denied allegation of large scale arrests and repression and said “legal action” against certain elements could not be conduct as a repressive policy”.
The Home Ministry put the number of arrests to $59 which has been vehemently contested by political circles here and the human rights organization of Nepal (Huron).
Meanwhile Prof Surya Bahadur Shakya, a former vice chancellor of the Tirbhuvan University, was put under house arrest at his Naghal tole house in Kathmandu town Saturday morning, a Huron representative said.
An active member of the Huron and the banned Nepali Congress, Prof Shakya is also President of the Nepal consumers’ association.
Over 60 students, including girls, were reportedly injured when police made a cane charge at Janakpurdham in Dhanusha district in central Nepal Friday afternoon to disperse a procession protesting against the arrest of students from a campus there the same morning,
Article extracted from this publication >> March 2, 1990
