Nepal: Release Report on 2015 Protest Violence

Expand A police officer faces protesters in Nepal’s Terai region in September 2015. © 2015 Private (New York) – The government of Nepal should make public, as pledged, the report of the commission that investigated deadly violence involving police and protesters in 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. Donors, including the United Kingdom and United States, which provide training and other security assistance to Nepal, and the United Nations which uses Nepali police on field missions, should seek to make sure that the government upholds the report’s recommendations on transparency and accountability…

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