Members of the Association of Families Disappeared by the State (AFDS) clashed with police at the entrance of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) office at Pulchwok in Kathmandu on Friday when the policemen attempted to prevent the AFDS members from entering the premises of the commission.

Some members of the AFDS entered the NHRC premises despite the obstruction created by the police, according to reports.

The AFDS has been staging sit-in protests since Thursday to pressurize the NHRC to find the whereabouts of the disappeared ones.

They said that they were compelled to take the move as the NHRC is yet to begin effective measures on the issue.

They said that they will continue the sit in unless the government makes public the whereabouts of their dear ones.

Earlier, the AFDS padlocked the NHRC on December 29 to pressurize the NHRC to speed-up the search process to find the whereabouts of disappeared people, but later opened it after the officials of the NHRC assured them of full cooperation.

The AFDS on Thursday, also submitted a memorandum to the office of the vice-chairman of the council of ministers Kirti Nidhi Bista, demanding that the government publicize the status of over 1000 persons ‘disappeared’ at the hands of the state.

The AFDS have been collecting signatures for submission at the upcoming UN rights convention in Geneva.

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal is also submitting a report about the rights situation in Nepal in the Geneva convention.