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Activist arrested over protest against Ani Choying Drolma’s appointment

Kathmandu Post ·

Police detained the head of a campaign opposing the appointment of the Buddhist nun as vice-chair of the Lumbini Development Trust after protesters burned a photograph of the tourism minister.

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