Kathmandu: A Nepalese rights activist said security forces on Thursday stopped him from boarding a plane for the United States, where he was to address a conference on King Gyanendra's February 1 seizure of power.


Former parliamentary speaker Daman Nath Dhungana said security forces halted him at capital's Tribhuvan International Airport as he was about to board a Royal Nepal Airlines flight.

Dhungana said he had been invited by the University of California in Berkley to speak at conference related to the king's power grab and declaration of emergency rule, which suspended civil liberties.

Under the emergency rule provisions, Nepalese citizens are forbidden from making comments critical of the king's takeover.

"I was restricted from boarding the plane to the US by the security personnel this morning," Dhungana told AFP. "The security officer said my name was on a list of those restricted from travelling."

Security forces also arrested the general secretary of the Nepal Communist Party (United), Bishnu Bahadur Manandhar, a representative of the small but influential party said. Police said they had no information on either incident.

Manandhar's arrest came after Nepal, facing growing world pressure to free political detainees, released on Thursday eight party leaders and activists arrested after King Gyanendra's takeover.

Among those released were former state foreign affairs minister Prakash Sharan Mahat, a member of the four-party coalition government dismissed by the king



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Fair Enough.

These buggers never said any promising things for the good of people... they never thrashed against the political leaders who ruined the country. Daman Nath Dhungana.. what a big deal? Became Speaker of the Parliament, so what?

What's up prem dai? King G started his junta with a promise to bring about peace in the country but look what he is doing. All he is doing is return Nepal to the times of medieval Rana regime. Daman is one of the cleanest men in Nepali politics and if you don't know about it, blame your ignorance. Or King G's leftovers blind you so much that you can't see anything else? Go kowtow your Paras the killer.

Yeah cleanest among the dirty politicians. I agree.

Nepal Army and Police force must not only STOP, but must ARREST these Nepalese crooks. Better to hang and put into justice.

These crooks carry fake and false documents of conferences and invitations, put Nepalese and Nepal into big trouble by mis-representing or mis-guiding.

They name themselves REPRESENTATIVE OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

They make Democracy and Human Rights as an effective free tool and easy tool of survival and protection.

- Badar Ko hatma Nariwal.
- Chor Ko Tulo Shor.