Nepal’s ex-PM arrested over alleged role in protest crackdown

Nepal’s former prime minister KP Sharma Oli and ex-home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested Saturday morning over their alleged involvement in a deadly crackdown on protestors in September, police said. The detentions come a day after Prime Minister Balendra Shah and his cabinet were sworn in after the first elections since the 2025 uprising that toppled 74-year-old Oli’s government.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“They were arrested this morning and the process will move forward according to the law,” Kathmandu Valley police spokesman Om Adhikari told AFP.At least 76 people were killed in the anti-corruption youth uprising on September 8 and 9, according to the inquiry commission into the violence.At least 19 young people were killed in a crackdown on the first day of protests, which began over a brief social media ban, but tapped into longstanding fury over economic hardship.The unrest spread nationwide the following day as

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