1,000 held in Nepal demo

Police detained more than 1,000 protesters for defying a ban on public rallies today, as demonstrators flooded the streets of the Nepalese capital Katmandu to demand that the king restore democracy.

The demonstrators were rounded up by police and driven away in trucks and buses for violating the ban, which the government imposed yesterday in hopes of heading off protests against the king for sacking an elected government in 2002.