OHCHR officials meet with abducted Surya Nepal employees

February 15, 2006
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The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Nepal has met with the three employees of Surya Nepal Pvt. Ltd who have been abducted by the Maoists.

According to a statement issued by the UN rights body’s Nepal office on Wednesday, an OHCHR team met with the abducted employees, Sarabjit Rana, Prabhakar Bikram Shah and Damabarmani Limbu, on Tuesday.

The three men were found “generally in good health”, and this information has been conveyed to their families by OHCHR-Nepal, the statement further said adding that efforts were on for their release.

The CPN (Maoist)-affiliated All Nepal Federation of Trade Union assumed responsibility for the abduction of Surya Nepal employees through press statements issued on February 7 and 10.

The rebels had abducted manufacturing manager Shah, production manager Rana and commercial manager Limbu from the southern district of Bara on February 3.

Family members of the abductees, human rights groups, the 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.