How do the police officers behave toward the women human rights defenders?
It depends upon the police officer, in some of the cases they do act positively, but in most cases, they are not particularly respectful of women human rights defenders. We had an incident last year in Sunsari District in the eastern part of Nepal when women human rights defenders went to file a case of a girl there, the police did not treat them positively. The police asked these women human rights defenders to go back home and cook good food for their husbands and be loyal to their husbands, rather than coming to the police station to report such minor case. So the women human rights defenders became very angry and there was a kind of dispute. It was sorted out later on, but the police didn’t react positively. It was a very painful incident. There was physical violence that took place also, the police officials started beating those women badly and pulled their guns out. It was an aggressive and uncontrollable incident which took place within the police station. It took us almost a w
