From Today’s Nepali Times

 The 25 civil society activists, doctors and journalists who defied the curfew on 8 April at the Teaching Hospital and jump-started the current agitation and were arrested have been shifted to a detention centre in Duwakot. The group includes prominent human rights activists Padma Ratna Tuladhar, Kapil Shrestha and Malla K Sundar, constitutional expert Laxman Aryal, medical doctors Madhu Ghimire and Sundar Mani Dixit, as well as Himalmedia publisher Kanak Mani Dixit.

Dr. Madhu was a Peace Corps Doctor in the 1990’s and has been active in the peace movement. If you have any ideas of how to help add a comment. Here is a list of the detainees:

Arrested on April 5 Â

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Journalists Â

Bishnu Nisthuri Yubraj AcharyaÂ

Mahedra Bista Balaram BaniyaÂ

Harihar Birahi Koshraj KoiralaÂ

Gopal Thapaliya Sudarshan AcharyaÂ

Krishna Humangain Bharatraj PokharelÂ

Nabaraj Sharma Rishi DhamalaÂ

Binod Pahadi  Â

Lawyers Â

Shambhu Thapa Madhab BaskotaÂ

Sher Bahadur K.C. Prabin Kharel Yogendra AdhikariÂ

Ramesh Badal Basudev AcharyaÂ

Ishwari Bhattarai Kamal IteniÂ

Nabaraj Khatiwada Hari UpretiÂ

Hariram Suwal Bikal PrajapatiÂ

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Doctors Â

Dr. Madhu Ghimire (Peace Corps Nepal Doctor)Â Mahesh MaskeÂ

Kedar N. Singh K.C.  Â

Artists Â

Nilhari Kafle Hom Subedi Bimal Aryal

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Political leaders and activists arrested on April 4, 2006Â

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Bijayakanta Lal KarnaÂ

Amaresh Kumar SinghÂ

Ramchandra JhaÂ

Hridayesh TripathiÂ

Deepak GuptaÂ

Rajendra MahatoÂ

Ms. Sarita GiriÂ

Dr. Sivachandra MishraÂ

Ganesh NepaliÂ

Ms. Asha ChaturvediÂ

Rajesh ShahaÂ

Ms. Urmila PandeÂ

Amaresh Narayan JhaÂ

Saroj YadavÂ

B.P. YadavÂ

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