pokhrel was put behind the bar for over 3-1/2 years by different regimes (total). his first jail time began, when he was barely 17 years old in 1960. king mahendr'a regime put him behind the bar for 18 months without any hearing, when pokhrel protested again the dissolution of first democratically elected government of b.p. koirala. pokhrel has been arrested over 50 times in different occasions.