Nepal releases student leader held since April on court order
AFP, Kathmandu
The Nepalese royal government Wednesday released a prominent student leader held for the past month after the country's Supreme Court said his detention was illegal. Pro-democracy student leader Gagan Thapa, former Nepal Student Union general secretary, affiliated to the Nepali Congress, was released from the Bhaktapur District Court on the eastern outskirts of Kathmandu, witnesses said. Thapa was arrested in April after weeks on the run for mounting protests against the February takeover by King Gyanendra, who sacked a four-party government for failure to stem a Maoist rebellion that has claimed more than 11,000 lives since 1996.
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