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Political Prisoners in Mass Hunger Strike in Nepal: 2/09/06

By the Collective Campaign for Peace

Kathmandu, Nepal, February 9, 2006: Twenty political leaders and activists who have been imprisoned for 90 days by Nepali police, are holding a mass hunger strike to protest their detention treatment.

Bipin Koirala, a former Nepali minister, and Sankar Nath Sharma, a former Member of Parliament and UML-Zonal Secretary, initiated the hunger strike at the Kamalamai Municipality at Sindhuli district today.

All twenty prisoners are being kept together in a small room, where they do not have enough space to move around. They have not been provided with edible food or drinkable water. They are being mistreated by supervisory police officers and are being denied the basic rights afforded to them as political detainees.

They are seeking assistance from human rights organizations to spotlight their mistreatment by security forces.

Names of arrested:

1. Bipin Koirala (Formal Minister)
2. Shankhar Nath Sharma (UML-Zonal Secretary)
3. Rang Raj Khatiwada (District President of Nepali Congress)
4. Mahendra Dhakal (District Member of Nepali Congress)
5. Binodha Koirala ( District Secretary of Nepal Student Union)
6. Dinesh Adhikari (District Secretary of Nepali Congress)
7. Mohan Baral (District Member of Nepali Congress)
8. Bimal Baral (Nepal Student Union)
9. Suman Koirala (District President of Nepal Student Union)
10. Keshab Devkota (ULM)
11. Ramhari Pokharel (ULM)
12. Pradeep Katuwal (ULM)
13. Mahendra Dev Sherstha (All Nepal National Free Students' Union)
14. Chudamani Sherstha (ULM)
15. Yam kumar Devkota (People's Front))
16. Praksh Koirala (ULM)
17. Narayan Baral (ULM)
18. Krishna Chaulagai
19. Postaraj Chaulagai
20. Hari Basnet
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Bijay Guindel

Collective Campaign for Peace
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Kathmandu, Nepal.
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