Nepal: Dozen women's rights activists picketing Chinese Embassy arrested
Event- Country
- Nepal
- Initial Date
- Sep 9, 2019
- Event Description
Police on Monday arrested more than a dozen Women's Rights Activists who picketed the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Nepal. The women's rights activists picketed the Embassy saying that hundreds of Nepali women were being sold as wives in China.
Women's Rights Activist Sita Jyoti said they picketed the Embassy to draw the attention of the Chinese foreign minister who is currently on a visit to Nepal towards this problem.
- Impact of Event
- 12
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- (Arbitrary) Arrest and Detention
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Offline
- Right to Protest
- Women's rights
- HRD
- SOGI rights defender
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Government
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 27.704910638779786
Longitude: 85.32403564453196
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 9 September 2019, over a dozen WHRDs were arrested by the police for protesting in front of the Embassy of the Popular Republic of China in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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