CPN UML Demands Unconditional Release of Student Leaders

Kathmandu. CPN UML has demanded the government to immediately release without conditions seven student leaders including ANNFSU Chairman Deepak Dhami arrested during a demonstration.

General Secretary Shankar Pokharel, issuing a statement on Wednesday, stated that the party has taken serious note of the government's brutal crackdown and arrests on students who were peacefully demonstrating in front of Singha Durbar Gate, raising issues of public concern against the soaring price hikes, atrocities on landless citizens, and a series of state terrorism rampant in the country.