GAYSEX in NEPAL will Destroy Social Fabric in NEPAL SunilPant Arrested ?

KATHMANDU : 

GAYSEX in NEPAL will Destroy 

Social Fabric in NEPAL SunilPant Arrested ?

Police held Constituent Assembly member Sunil Babu Pant, 

who is also the chairman of Nil Hira Samaj, 

along with 58 other LGBTI activists from 

Singha Durbar in the area this afternoon.

They entered the prohibited area while staging a protest in front of the country's main administrative complex demanding smooth issuance of citizenship to the sexual minorities.

According to DSP Pradyumna Kumar Karki at Metropolitan Police Range in Hamumandhoka, the detainees who were kept at Metropolitan Police Sector in Kamalpokhari and Singhadurbar were released after 5 p.m.

Led by Nepal's only openly gay member of parliament Sunil Babu Pant, dozens of homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders began a public demonstration in the capital on Tuesday, announcing a fast unto death to protest against discrimination and homophobia.

The protest is against Home Minister Bhim Rawal who, according to the sexual minorities, has refused to authorise the issuance of identity cards to transgenders though the Supreme Court ordered the government to do so three years ago. "We have run out of patience," said Pant, who is also the founder of the gay rights movement in Nepal and celebrated a decade of the stir Saturday. "We are ashamed to have a government whose minister denies citizens a legal ID, which is a fundamental right. You can't survive in Nepal without a legal ID. Third genders can't enrol in college, get jobs or inherit ancestral property. They can't open a bank account or travel. Even being treated in hospital is a problem," Pant said. In December 2007, Nepal's Supreme Court recognised the community as "natural people" entitled to all the rights heterosexual citizens enjoy. The court also gave the nod to same-sex marriages and ordered the government to draft laws to protect the rights of the community. Following the landmark judgment, three districts of Banke, Palpa and Kaski issued IDs to five third genders -- people who consider themselves to be of a sex different from the one they were born with. They have been asking to be recognised as third genders in their state IDs instead of male or female. However, Pant says the present home minister stopped the issuance of such IDs. "We had approached the president (Ram Baran Yadav) and the prime minister (Madhav Kumar Nepal)," the MP told IANS. "Both sent letters to the home ministry asking it to speed up matters. But the home minister is still refusing to authorise the IDs." The current home minister is a controversial politician who had a feud with his deputy, Minister of State Rizvan Ansari, who blamed him for the deteriorating law and order situation in the country. The feud ended with the prime minister forcing Ansari to resign though Ansari was the only elected MP in the cabinet from the premier's party. Rawal is now at the centre of a fresh controversy after the caretaker PM drew flak for his earlier decision to lead a jumbo delegation to the UN General Assembly and delegated the home minister to go in his stead. "It's really a sad case that a minister who denies the rights of the most marginalised people in the country and refuses to implement the decision of the Supreme Court will represent Nepal at the UN meet," Pant said. Nepal detains activists seeking transgender identification (Reuters Life!) - More than 70 gay rights activists were detained in the Nepali capital on Tuesday in a crackdown on a rally to demand government identification papers for transgender people, police and activists said. Nepali men and women who identify themselves as transgender are seeking citizenship certificates with their gender marked as "third sex" instead of male or female. Sunil Babu Pant, lawmaker and founder of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group, said more than 70 people were detained near the prime minister's office and parliament. "We are running out of patience and are demanding our rights," Pant told Reuters from a detention centre. "Without the citizenship papers, the sexual minorities are unable to get a job, enrol in schools or colleges, seek treatment in hospitals and travel," he said. "They cannot even inherit parental property." In 2007, the Supreme Court ordered the government to amend laws to end discrimination against homosexuals, and give them the same rights as other citizens. Government officials were not immediately available for comment. Kathmandu police chief Ramesh Kharel said the activists were detained for "violating the norms" by gathering at a place where demonstrations were not allowed. Hindu-majority Nepal has become more gay-friendly over the last few years, but homosexuality still remains taboo for many people in this conservative Himalyan nation. Same-sex marriages have taken place in public and gay beauty contests are held. A travel agency run by gay people is offering to organise same-sex weddings at Mount Everest in a move to promote the scenic mountainous nation as a gay-friendly tourist destination. (Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Editing by Sugita Katyal) http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=CA+member+Pant+arrested,+released&NewsID=257745 KATHMANDu: Police held Constituent Assembly member Sunil Babu Pant, who is also the chairman of Nil Hira Samaj, along with 58 other LGBTI activists from Singha Durbar in the area this afternoon. They entered the prohibited area while staging a protest in front of the country's main administrative complex demanding smooth issuance of citizenship to the sexual minorities. According to DSP Pradyumna Kumar Karki at Metropolitan Police Range in Hamumandhoka, the detainees who were kept at Metropolitan Police Sector in Kamalpokhari and Singhadurbar were released after 5 p.m. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/96346/nepal-gays-start-hungerstrike-against.html Kathmandu, Sep  Led by Nepal's only openly gay member of parliament Sunil Babu Pant, dozens of homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders began a public demonstration in the capital on Tuesday, announcing a fast unto death to protest against discrimination and homophobia. The protest is against Home Minister Bhim Rawal who, according to the sexual minorities, has refused to authorise the issuance of identity cards to transgenders though the Supreme Court ordered the government to do so three years ago. "We have run out of patience," said Pant, who is also the founder of the gay rights movement in Nepal and celebrated a decade of the stir Saturday. "We are ashamed to have a government whose minister denies citizens a legal ID, which is a fundamental right. You can't survive in Nepal without a legal ID. Third genders can't enrol in college, get jobs or inherit ancestral property. They can't open a bank account or travel. Even being treated in hospital is a problem," Pant said. In December 2007, Nepal's Supreme Court recognised the community as "natural people" entitled to all the rights heterosexual citizens enjoy. The court also gave the nod to same-sex marriages and ordered the government to draft laws to protect the rights of the community. Following the landmark judgment, three districts of Banke, Palpa and Kaski issued IDs to five third genders -- people who consider themselves to be of a sex different from the one they were born with. They have been asking to be recognised as third genders in their state IDs instead of male or female. However, Pant says the present home minister stopped the issuance of such IDs. "We had approached the president (Ram Baran Yadav) and the prime minister (Madhav Kumar Nepal)," the MP told IANS. "Both sent letters to the home ministry asking it to speed up matters. But the home minister is still refusing to authorise the IDs." The current home minister is a controversial politician who had a feud with his deputy, Minister of State Rizvan Ansari, who blamed him for the deteriorating law and order situation in the country. The feud ended with the prime minister forcing Ansari to resign though Ansari was the only elected MP in the cabinet from the premier's party. Rawal is now at the centre of a fresh controversy after the caretaker PM drew flak for his earlier decision to lead a jumbo delegation to the UN General Assembly and delegated the home minister to go in his stead. "It's really a sad case that a minister who denies the rights of the most marginalised people in the country and refuses to implement the decision of the Supreme Court will represent Nepal at the UN meet," Pant said.