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Nepal Democracy Alliance, 17 March 2005, Kathmandu / Delhi

Student and youth organizations affiliated to Nepali Congress, Communist Party of Nepal (UML), Jan Morcha Nepal and Nepali Congress (Democratic) organized pro-democracy demonstrations in Kathmandu, 17 March 2005.

They shouted slogans for full-democracy and denounced the royal-military coup by Gynanendra Shah. They also distributed pamphlets in different parts of Kathmandu.

The police arrested at least 32 demonstrators. Nepal Democracy Alliance confirmed the arrests of the following pro-democracy activists from these demonstrations today:

Prakash Pokharel - Secretary, All Nepal National Free Students Union (United)
Bharat Shahi - Nepal Student Union (Democratic)
Pramod Rijal - Tarun Dal, Nuwakot
Hirakaji Maharjan - President, Prajatantrik Rastriya Yuva Sangh,
Lalitpur District
Hari Rai - Central Committee Member, Prajatantrik Rastriya Yuva Sangh
Laxmi K.C. Tarun Dal

Purushottam Luitel
Santosh Kattel
Padam Palung
Dhruva Lal Pradhan
Yam Prasad Kandel
Uttam Kuikel
Ramesh Bhandari
Tejendra Khanal
Narayan Acharya
Rajkumar Lama

The whereabouts of those arrested is unknown.

Similarly, Nepal Democracy Alliance also received reports from a journalist based in Dhangadhi of the pro-democracy demonstrations by the students and youth in Dhangadhi today. Among the demonstrators,
the police arrested the following:

Yagya Dhungana - Central Committee Member, ANNFSU
Purna Kunwar – President, Nepal Student Union, Kailali District
Pushpa Kumar Shahi – President, Nepal Student Union (Democratic),
Kailali District Laxman Shahi - President, NSU (Democratic),
Dhangadhi Multiple Campus
Krishna Rawal – Student activist