THE government of Nepal has summoned the British ambassador in Kathmandu to protest the arrest of a Nepali army officer in the United Kingdom over allegations of torture reportedly committed during the decade-long Maoist insurgency.
Deputy Prime Minister Narayankaji Shrestha told reporters that the Nepal government has demanded the immediate release of Colonel Kumar Lama.
Nepal has also instructed its embassy in London to submit a protest note to the British government.
Britain's Metropolitan Police arrested the 46-year-old on Thursday in the English town of St Leonards-on-Sea, about 115 kilometres southeast of London.
Nepal officials said Lama is currently serving as a military observer under the UN Mission in Southern Sudan and was on a holiday in London.
Scotland Yard said the arrest did not take place at the request of Nepali authorities.
The details of the alleged offence have not been made clear.
British authorities claim "universal jurisdiction" over serious offences such as war crimes, torture, and hostage taking.
Thousands died and thousands more were injured or tortured during Nepal's civil war, a decade-long conflict which ended in 2006.
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