KATHMANDU, Jan. 22 -- Expressing serious concerns over the decision of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to field murder-accused Agni Prasad Sapkota as candidate for House Speaker, a group of civil society leaders on Tuesday urged the ruling party, the government and political leadership concerned not to elect him to the post.
Issuing a public appeal on Tuesday, over two dozen civil society leaders including prominent human rights activists said that the decision has made a mockery of the rule of law, ignored Nepal's human rights obligations and put Purnimaya Lama, widow of Arjun Bahadur Lama, into grave injustice.
Sapkota, along with others, is accused of murdering Lama after his abduction from Kavre in April, 2005. A murder case ag...