Incident Reports

Police detain 25 students protesting against PM Oli

2018-07-19

Gandaki, Kaski, Pokhara Lekhnath

Police briefly detained 25 students affiliated to Nepali Congress and Naya Shakti Party, Nepal after while demonstrating outside the entrance of the State Parliament on Thursday. Police said the demonstrators were detained for demonstrating in prohibitory zone. The students had assembled outside the State Parliament building to protest the arrival of Prime Minister KP Oli. The demonstration was organised to press the Oli government to address the demands of Dr Govinda KC. A senior orthopaedic surgeon at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Dr KC was staging indefinite hunger strike in Jumla district for the past 20 days, pressing for reforms in medical education sector of the country. He was forcibly airlifted to Kathmandu on Thursday at the instruction of the government. This is the 15th hunger strike of Dr KC since 2012. He has repeatedly resorted to what he calls his ‘Satyagraha’ to improve the country’s medical education sector and widen health care access to all parts of the country, and every successive governments have promised to address his demands and ignored them. पोखरामा प्रधानमन्त्री केपी शर्मा ओलीलाई कालो झण्डा देखाउन खोज्ने २५ विद्यार्थी पक्राउ परेका छन् । पोखरा विमानस्थल निरीक्षण र पोखरा विश्वविद्यालयको १५ औं साधारणसभामा भाग लिन आएका प्रधानमन्त्री ओलीलाई विभिन्न ठाउँमा कालोझण्डा देखाउने नेपाल विद्यार्थी संघ र नयाँ शक्ति पार्टीका विद्यार्थीहरु पक्राउ परेका हुन् । प्रधानमन्त्री ओलीले बिहीबार नै पोखरामै गण्डकी प्रदेशसभालाई संबोधन गर्ने कार्यक्रम छ । नयाँ शक्तिका विद्यार्थीहरुले प्रदेशसभा बाहिर कालोझण्डा देखाउने तयारी गरेका थिए । त्यस्तै नेविसंघका विद्यार्थीले पोखरामा विभिन्न ठाउँमा प्रधानमन्त्रीलाई कालोझण्डा देखाएका थिए ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Arrest (politically significant)
Primary Cause Other governance issues
Actor 1 - Number of people 25
Actor 1 - Affiliations Police
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people 25
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Students
Actor 2 - Youth youth
National/Online Media

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