Indian police have taken into custody dozens of demonstrators including students, human rights activists and journalists on Friday while they were protesting against fresh crackdown in Nepal, reports said.
Demonstrators trying to fix a banner in front of Royal Nepalese embassy in New Delhi on Friday (Photo courtesy : Arun Deo Joshi)
Demonstrators trying to fix a banner in front of Royal Nepalese embassy in New Delhi on Friday (Photo courtesy : Arun Deo Joshi)
A statement issued by Nepali Youth Initiative for Peace and Democracy on Friday said the demonstration was organised to protest against fresh ban on peaceful assembly, mass meetings and arrest of over a hundred political and right activists in the Himalayan kingdom.
A numbers of Nepali migrant organisations including Pravasi Nepali Sangh Bharat, Nepali Jan Sampark Samiti, Bharat, Migrant Nepalese Watchmen Labour Committee and Indian organisations including Socialist Front India participated in the demonstration organised by the NYIPAD in front of the Royal Nepalese embassy in Delhi.
Hundreds of demonstrators walked towards the embassy Gate from Mandi House and staged sit- in protest there. Banners were pasted at the gate and walls of the Nepalese embassy and slogans against what they called autocratic regime in Nepal and in support of on-going pro-democracy movement in Nepal for more than an hour, the statement said.
The demonstrators were in custody till this evening, the organisers said.