KATHMANDU - The Nepalese government has ended the three-month detention of the communist party leader, who was placed under house arrest when King Gyanendra seized power in February, family sources said on Monday. "The government released Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist and Leninist general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal from house arrest late Sunday evening," said Saroj Kumar Nepal, the leader's brother.
| Couldn't they have just transferred him to a prison cell? |
The king sacked the four-party coalition government in February for failing to control a Maoist insurgency that has claimed more than 11,000 lives.
The NCP-UML is one of the coalition parties in the sacked government headed by Sher Bahadur Deuba. |