Abducted employees of Surya Nepal
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A team of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has met with the three employees of Surya Nepal Pvt. Ltd, who were abducted by the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF) from Bara district on February 3.

Quoting commission officials who met with the abducted employees, Sarabjit Rana, Prabhakar Bikram Shah and Damabarmani Limbu, a statement issued by the NHRC on Thursday said, adding that the three men are safe and that the commission was hopeful for their early release.

The abductees have contacted their families over telephone in the presence of the NHRC officials, the statement added.

The Maoist trade union assumed responsibility for the abduction of Surya Nepal employees through press statements issued on February 7 and 10. A team of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Nepal also had met with the abductees on Tuesday.

Family members of the abductees, human rights groups, business community and the Industrial Security Group (ISG), a group of foreign diplomatic missions in Nepal, have already demanded that the Maoists release them immediately.

Meanwhile, the NHRC monitors have met with two persons said to have disappeared after being arrested by the security forces.

The NHRC release said the monitors met with Rabi Thami alias Dambar Thami, general secretary of Thami Liberation Front whose whereabouts remained unknown following his arrest by security forces, at the Prison Department’s Kavrepalanchowk branch.

Likewise, the officials have met also with Parbati Thapa, another involuntarily-disappeared person, at the Ward Police Office, Baneswore, Kathmandu.