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Katmandu Protests: 9/16/05

Scores of Journalists Arrested in Katmandu Protests

By the Collective Campaign For Peace
Journalists' Protests (14:00-15:00 local time)
Katmandu, September 16, 2005: Approximately one hundred journalists were arrested from the Ratnapark area during a demonstration demanding press freedom and democracy. A police intervention stopped them from organizing a public meeting.

Students' protests: (15:30 to 17:00 local time)
Charkhal, Dillibazar- Police arrested hundreds of students in Putalisadak. Students began throwing stones once the police started to arrest them. The police also threw stones at the student's crowd. Police took trucks used to transport demonstrators to the protest.

Female police personnel were mobilized to halt the organization of human rights activists and journalists in the area.

COCAP human rights observers rescued injured people from the frontline of the demonstration.

The police have continued the indiscriminate use of tear gas, batons and arbitrary arrest of demonstrators. Around 40 tear gas shells were fired and some directly targeted at the protestors. The police also deliberately threw stones several times at demonstrators. Some passerby and locals of the demonstrating areas became victims of police actions.

The situation around Ratna Park, Dillibazar, Putali Sadak and Exhibition Road was tense during the protest period.

List of journalists arrested:

1. Kishor Shrestha
2. Poshan K C
3. Mahendra Bishta
4. Bishnu Nishthuri
5. Ramji Dahal
6. Shyam Shrestha
7. Narayan Sharma
8. Prem Gaire
9. Surya Thapa
10. Bhakta Sahi
11. Ghanshyam Khadka
12. Hari Prashad Dahal
13. Manoj Giri
14. Naryan Tiwari
15. Hemanta Kafle
16. Sarala Baiju
17. BishwoMani Subedi
18. Maya Mulmi
19. Rajendra Aryal
20. Harihar Dahal
21. Balmukunda Silwal
22. Ramrijan Yadav
23. Binod Pahadi
24. Padam BK
25. Siva Gaunle
26. Gangadhar Tuladhar
27. Laxman Karki
28. Tanka Panta
29. Khila Karki
30. Chetnath Dhamala
31. Jayprakash Gupta
32. Bindu Pantha
33. Kiran Nepal
34. K B Mukunda
35. Bharat Sahi
36. Kamal Giri
37. Harihar Birahi
38. Indra Baniya
39. Mani Subedi
40. Lekanath Archya
41. Rem B.K.
42. Tirtha Neupane
43. Bharat Sharma
44. Pramod Ayam
45. Sankar Dayal Malla
46. Laxmi Prashad Prasain
47. Rajeshwor Thapa
48. Surya Thapa
49. Ramesh Bishtha
50. Rupak Dahal
51. Rishi Dhamala
52. Sanat Acharya
53. Subhecha Bindu
54. Phanindra Dahal
55. Gyan Raj Shrestha
56. Susil Pantha
57. Siri Babu Karki
58. Amrit Baniya
59. Nanda Risi Neupane
60. Sun Bahadur Malla
61. Dipendra Karki
62. Bishnu Paudel
63. Damodar Dawadi
64. Prakash Humagain
65. Mahendra Kumar Nemwang
66. Tara Aryal
67. Raju Shrestha
68. Lekhnath Pandey
69. Siromani Dhunghana
70. Damodar Nepane
71. Bindu Kumar Chauhan
72. Basanta Bahadur Thapa
73. Tara Nath Ghimire
74. Aphal Baral
75. Hem Sankar Singha
76. Benu Prasad Bhattarai
77. Gagan Bishtha
78. Nawaraj Sharma
79. Badri Khatiwada
80. Jhalak Gaire
81. Kiran Pokhrel
82. Bharat Thami
83. Arun Baral

List of journalists injured:

1. Devendra Man singh
2. Suvash Darnal

List of political activists arrested:

1. Laxman Lamsal
2. Ganga Datta Joshi
3. Susil Koirala
4. Om Dhungana
5. Ram Hari Khatiwada
6. Gobinda Raj Joshi
7. Bir Bahdur Hamal
8. Som Raj Pande
9. Janak Rawal
10. Siva Ram Khadka
11. Bhakti Kumari Lama
12. Hari Priya Dhungana
13. Hari Khanal
14. Bimala Manandhar
15. Anjali Neupane
16. Masesh Devkota
17. Santa Adhikari
18. Jib Raj Mishra
19. Yagya Dhakal
20. Yog Raj Lamichane
21. Binita Adhikari
22. Tika Chaudhari
23. Chanda Achikari
24. Krishna Kahadka
25. Krishana Hari Bhatta
26. Madhav Gurung
27. Yam Bahadur Gurung
28. Saligram K C
29. Siva Kumar Yadav
30. Deepak Bahatta
31. Kalyan Giri
32. Ram B K
33. Bal Krishna Khand
34. Parbati Saha
35. Tara Devi Saha
36. Hari Ram Chaudhari
37. Binod Kayastha
38. Surendra Thamang
39. Sudarsan C K
40. Prem Lal Joshi
41. Madhav Thapaliya
42. Surendra Raj Chaudhary
43. Arjun Chaudhary
44. Chirinjibi Paudel
45. Siva Ram Khanal
46. Gopal Subedi
47. Tika Ram Dhital
48. Yubaraj Joshi
49. Narayan Tiwari
50. Uma Dangol
51. Hari Maya Dangol
52. Ram Bahadur Thakur
53. Devendra Man singha
54. Bishnu Prasad Mishra
55. Hom Nepali
56. Bhagat Chaudhari
57. B P Pariyar
58. Prachanda Thakur
59. Raj Kumar Rai
60. Kailash Raj Kaushadhan
61. Ujjwal Ghimire
62. Sambhu Raj Pande
63. Alin Sansari
64. Jwala Bistha
65. Janak Rawal
66. Ram Bahadur Bishtha
67. Raj Kumar Thapa
68. Ram Singha Rawal
69. Hasta Bahadur Malla
70. Kshitij Bhandari
71. Krishna Pariyar
72. Dil Bahadur Gharti
73. Laxmi Neupane
74. Pramod Dhakal
75. N P Saud
76. Bikram Singha
77. Ram Narayan Chaudari
78. Jiba Raj Pande
79. Bhakta Kumar Rana
80. Mahnta Thakur
81. Prakash Saran Mahat
82. Rajan Panta
83. Gopal Rai
84. Julma Lama
85. Narayan Wagle
86. Santosh Wagle
87. Pushpa Prashad Adhikari
88. Ajaya Chaurasiya
89. Pramod Drishti
90. Dhanu Bhandari
91. Kalyani Rijal
92. Ram Hari Khatiwada
93. Krishna Bahadur Chunara
94. Rajan Kuwanr
95. Jagadish Pathak
96. Suva Prashad Prasain
97. Ajaya Chaurasiya
98. Ashok Paudel
99. Keshav Adhikari
100. Gopal Subedi
101. Pradeep Paudel
102. Badri Pande
103. Pradeep Humangain
104. Min Bahadur Hamal
105. Rakesh Srestha
106. Nirmala B K
107. Basu Koirala
108. Siva Ram Khadki
109. Gopal Sanjel
110. Sarij Krishna Joshi
111. Kundan Kafle
112. Basu Rai
113. Bhupendra Rai
114. Tilak Bhandari
115. Santosh Gyanwali

List of few political activists injured:

1. Jagganath Subedi
2. Radha Krishna Budhathoki (Leg Broken)
3. Santosh Rawal (tear gas fired on chest)
4. Jiban Gautam
5. Ramji Sapkota (Arm broken)
6. Somraj Pande
7. Hemanta Upreti
8. Chanda Adhikari
9. Ajaya Shrestha

List of few Students arrested:

1. Mahendra Sharma
2. Bhupendra Jung Sahi
3. Yuwaraj Lamichane
4. Mukunda Jwala
5. Birendra Sharma
6. Gyanu Timilsina
7. Bimala Maharjan
8. Siva Yadav
9. Bimala Khanal
10. Surendra Basnet
11. Thakur Gaire

List of few police injured:

10. Sambhu Bohara
11. Dinesh Rai
12. Ser Bahadur Dhoi

-COCAP Human Rights Monitoring Team



Teargas guns are widely used among the army to suppress demonstrators.