PHA-Exchange> Re : Mathura Shrestha arrested! (2)

[claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn]

Quoting prem_john at vsnl.net:

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> My dear friends,
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> PHM message of protest has long gone around. Now on several websites, it
> should have reached thousands of people. Here is what we sent:
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> Friends,
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> Dr. Mathura Prasad Shrestha, former Minister for Health, Government of
> Nepal,former  Professor of Community Health, Tribhuvan University,Kathmandu,
> current Head of Essential Health Research, Nepal, head of Resource Centre for
> Primary Health Care and above everything else, an activist par excellence,
> who even as the Minister for Health,  led a protest against his own
> government when an unjust law was about to be passed, was arrested in
> Kathmandu this morning. Police personnel broke down his door, entered his
> house in Kathmandu without a warrant and took him away forcibly. This is
> obviously related to the massive protest planned for the 20th of January
> against the illegal and uncivilised rule of the king and for restoration of
> democracy.
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> Dr. Shrestha has been a beacon of hope amidst the despair in the country and
> has played a crucial role in keeping the spirit alive, keeping the misrule of
> the king in the public eye and in the international media.
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> It is vitally important that immediate steps are taken to procure his
> release. He is old and sick but that has not deterred him from openly and
> massively raising the consciousness among NGOs, activists and other civil
> society structures in Nepal.
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> People's Health Movement (www.phmovement.org), of which Dr,Shrestha is an
> important part, is a worldwide organisation, present in about 90 countries
> and active in about 60 of them. PHM's concern is not health rights alone but
> fundamental human rights and their preservation. Any abuse of human rights
> deserves instant and massive protests, especially when it is done by a king
> with no legitimate authority and in the complete absence of democracy.
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> We seek your intervention to highlight this incident as widely as possible
> and to make his release possible.
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> Prem Chandran John
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> Convenor, Transitional Team
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> Global PHM Secretariat
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> Please keep sending protests to every one you can think of.
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