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Minister Gyawali vows to punish perpetrators of enforced disappearance



KATHMANDU: Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Gyawali has vowed to punish the perpetrators responsible for forcefully disappearing people.

Speaking at a program in the capital today, Minister Gyawali vowed to take stringent legal actions against the perpetrators.

He said that the perpetrators forcefully disappearing people would not be spared at any cost saying that the country’s constitution stipulates that a person shall not be detained in custody without informing him/her of the ground of his/her arrest.

According to him, around 25,000 complaints have been registered at the Commission for Investigation of the Enforced Disappearance Persons (CIDEP) to probe into cases of those forcefully disappeared during the decade-long insurgency.

Publish Date : 27 May 2019 16:02 PM

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