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Katmandu Protests: 9/19/05

Professionals Associations and Intellectuals Demonstrate at Street Protests

By the Collective Campaign For Peace, Nepal

Katmandu, September 19, 2005 -Professionals associations and intellectuals joined the street protests in Katmandu. The demonstration was organized to demand for democracy and protest the undemocratic royal regime. In a peaceful attempt to cross a prohibitory zone for protests, police intervened and used excessive amounts of police force to suppress the demonstration. Protesters were shouting anti-monarchy slogans and demanding a democratic republic in Nepal. More than a hundred lawyers, teachers, engineers and professionals were arrested. Political party leaders \ who joined the Professionals Associations and Intellectuals' initiative were also arrested. Dillibazar area of the city remained tense in a clash between police and demonstrators.

Students of Sarasawati Multiple College organized a talk program at the college. The speakers of the program were Bam Dev Gautam (CPM/UML), Krishna Pahadi (Human Rights Activist) and other leaders. Meanwhile, a journalist from the Kantipur Publication Jagat Nepal (news reporter of Kantipur TV), Ramsaran Sharma (a cameraperson from Kantipur TV) and Ghanshyam Ojha (news reporter of The Katmandu Post) were threatened by unknown persons inside the college. They were using abusing words to threaten journalists. People threatened to smash their vehicles. Journalists were forcefully made to return without reporting on the talk program. 

List of demonstrators arrested:

1. Ram Saran Mahat
2. Susil Koirala
3. Suresh Malla
4. Arjun Nnarsingh KC
5. Gopal Subadi
6. Nanda Ram Archya
7. Yagya Dhakal
8. Bishnu Prasad Misra
9. Lakhnath Tiwari
10. Krishna Prasad Adikari
11. Chayadevi Prajuli
12. Harihar Dahal
13. Basu Koirala
14. Badri Pandey
15. Mahanta Thakur
16. Puspa Bhusal
17. Mahendra Kumar Misra
18. Rajandra Aryal
19. N.P. Saud
20. Pradip Paudal
21. Rajandra Shrestha
22. Tarni Datta Chataut
23. Asha Bashyal
24. Bhakta Dhoj Bohora
25. Prakas Saran Mahat
26. Bharat Sahi
27. Yek Badhaur Thapa
28. Omkar Kuwar
29. Baburam Dhakal
30. Babu Napali
31. Uma Khanal
32. Rosan Kumar Paudal
33. Saroj Neupane
34. Mahendra Singh
35. Purna Dhakal
36. Agni Kharal
37. Buddhi Prasad Lamichane
38. Surendra Chaudhari
39. Dev Narayan Bhusal
40. Tulsi Paneru
41. Yagya Bahadur Thapa
42. Sukra Raj Sharma
43. Binu Wagle
44. Hridaya Ram Thami
45. Mangal Sidhdhi Manadhar
46. Jagadish Narsingh KC

-COCAP Human Rights Monitoring Team

Professionals confront riot police in Dilli Bazaar, Kathmandu.