Cops nab 1,000 Nepalis as anti-king demo foiled
AFP, Kathmandu
Around 1,000 people were taken into custody yesterday as police in Nepal broke up new demonstrations against the royalist government and protesters torched two trucks, witnesses said. Police took away about half of some 1,000 people who took to the streets at the call of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists to protest alleged harassment of media covering two weeks of mass anti-monarchy demonstrations. The Federation said that among those detained were the media group's president, Taranath Dahal; Kunda Dixit, editor of the English-language weekly The Nepali Times, and Narayan Wagle, editor of leading daily Kantipur. Another 500 demonstrators were rounded up in a separate demonstration led by Sher Bahadur Deuba, the prime minister dismissed for "incompetence" in 2002 by King Gyanendra who appointed his own unelected government.
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