Supporters of Nepal's former PM clash with police over his arrest for protester deaths

Record ID: 2370965

  • Title: Supporters of Nepal's former PM clash with police over his arrest for protester deaths
  • Date: 29th March 2026
  • Summary: KATHMANDU, NEPAL (MARCH 29, 2026) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS AND NEPALESE POLICE GATHERED NEAR THE DISTRICT COURT KATHMANDU, FACING EACH OTHER VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS HOLDING RED FLAGS AND EXPRESSING THEIR ANGER POLICE GETTING INTO POSITION PROTESTERS AND POLICE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING  POLICE BEHIND RIOT SHIELDS MOVING FORWARD POLICE STANDING BY AS PROTESTERS THEN RUN AWAY
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  • Keywords: Nepalese police clashes protesters the district court Kathmandu
  • Location: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
  • City: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
  • Country: Nepal
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001839529032026RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:      Protesters supporting Nepal's former prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, on Sunday (March 29) clashed with Nepalese police on the streets of Kathmandu for a second time at the weekend.
        Some supporters were seen with head injuries as police beat protesters with batons and detained others.
        Oli was arrested on Saturday as police investigate whether he was negligent in failing to prevent dozens of deaths in a crackdown on Gen Z-led anti-corruption protests last September, officials said.
        His arrest, which his lawyer said was illegal, sparked protests by supporters on Saturday who clashed with police, followed rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah's swearing in as prime minister on Friday and a recommendation by a panel investigating violence during the protests that he should be prosecuted for negligence.
        Oil's former home minister, Ramesh Lekhak, was also arrested.
        Seventy-six people were killed last September during a police crackdown and arson and violent unrest during the protests, which led to Oli's resignation.
        After his arrest on Saturday, supporters staged protest rallies and clashed with police who tried to stop them burning tyres near the prime minister's office. Police lobbed a teargas shell and used batons to break up the protests, injuring one person, witnesses said.
        Oli's Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) called his arrest illegal and said it was an act of "revenge". It demanded his immediate release and said more protests were planned on Sunday.
    (Production: Yubaraj Sharma, Lisa Giles-Keddie)
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