PHA-Exchange> Mathura Shrestha arrested!

[Bert De Belder]

Dear PHM-friends,
This morning, I got the following message (which many of you must have received as well):

Dear All,

This is to inform you that Mathura P Shrestha has been abducted by police from his home today 19 Jan 06 at around 6 AM. About 12-15 armed policemen broke into his house today and said he'd be taken to the ward police office, maharajgunj chakrapath. The police did not have warrant at the time of arrest but showed an ID on request. 

The reason for arrest is still unknown but this clearly got to do with the mass protest rally to be conducted at 20 Jan. All the phone lines here are dead, including mobile phones, which indicates that several other activists and political party personnel may have been arrested too. 

This is clearly an act of cowardice by the current king and his government and I urge all the freedom loving persons to stand against such act against a human right activist.

Regards,

The message was sent from Mathura's e-mail address:

From: mathura shrestha 
To: mathura.shrestha at gmail.com 

Shouldn't we circulate this message and initiate actions to help obtain his immediate release (petition letter, chain mail,...)? Shouldn't we issue a statement as PHM?

Bert

PS: Dr. Ahmad Maslamani of the Health Work Committees, Palestine, remains in jail as well, in Israel, without clear charges and without a trial, for seven months now. Solidarity messages can be coursed through us. More information on www.health-now.org.
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