{"id":8681,"date":"2017-11-02T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T08:24:09","slug":"gays-pepper-sprayed-cops-accused-of-targeting-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/gays-pepper-sprayed-cops-accused-of-targeting-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays pepper-sprayed – Cops accused of targeting men"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kathmandu (Pahichan) November 2 – A human-rights advocate has written to Commissioner of Police George Quallo alleging that gays are being attacked by policemen in Half-Way Tree, St Andrew.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lloyd D’Aguilar, in asking for the top cop’s immediate intervention, said that there have been “at least three occasions where police personnel, without provocation, have pepper-sprayed homeless gay and transgender individuals in the Half-Way Tree area” within the last month.<\/p>\n

“My report is that the police parties descended upon them, ordered them to move on and then proceeded to pepper-spray them,” D’Aguilar said.<\/p>\n

He argued that there is no evidence that these individuals posed any threat to law and order, other than that they were bunched together in a public space.<\/p>\n

He said that any failure by Quallo to “promptly investigate and put a stop to this abuse” will imply his support for criminal behaviour by the members of the police force.<\/p>\n

When contacted yesterday, Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, head of the Constabulary Communication Unit, said she is unaware of the issues which D’Aguilar raised in his letter to Quallo.<\/p>\n

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