location: Kathmandu
notes: Police arrested 70 people of the Federation of Community Forest Users Nepal (FECOFUN) while trying to encircle the Department of Forest in Kathmandu. Over a dozen people were injured, seven critically, when the police resorted to using batons to break up the protests. The FECOFUN had been demonstrating against the government's decision to amend Forest Act-1993 to increase taxes and to scrap the rights of community forests.
target_text: location: Kathmandu, fatalities: 0