OneWorld.net (U.S.)

Over the last two weeks, Nepalese security forces have arrested over 1,500 people, including political leaders, teachers and students, in mass protests in Kathmandu. Similar scenes of arrests and violence have recurred daily in the Nepali capital as political parties and their student supporters hold their most sustained protests yet. According to reports from the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP), an AP partner, protesters are calling for a multi-party democracy that will reinstate political leaders in the country. To read the reports from COCAP’s human rights monitors, please visit the links below:

* Effigies Burnt at Political Demonstrations in Nepal (September 18, 2005)

* Professionals Associations and Intellectuals Demonstrate at Street Protests (September 19, 2005)

* Teachers and Female Activists Demand Democracy in Nepal (September 20, 2005)

* Students Demonstrate At Colleges Around Katmandu (September 22, 2005)