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group of transgendered
people, and the organization said the incident highlights the vulnerability
of all Nepalese to police abuse, alertnet.org reported. Human Rights Watch leaders
said that since King Gyanendra seized power in February, he suspended most civil
liberties. On April 13, police attacked 18 transgendered people who were walking
to a Nepalese New Year’s Eve festival in Kathmandu, and nine were severely
beaten, Human Rights Watch reported. “This attack is only the latest of
a string of police assaults in Nepal against transgender people,” Scott
Long, of the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
“In a country where political and civil rights have been suspended, the
violence sends a message that no one who looks or acts differently can feel
safe.”
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