Banished after release, jailed Bhutanese can’t return even to their former refugee camp

Former Bhutanese political prisoners Chatur Man Tamang and Hasta Bahadur Rai are unable to enter Nepal after spending more than 18 years in Bhutan jail because they were not given release documents.

After spending more than 18 years in a Bhutanese prison, Chatur Man Tamang and Hasta Bahadur Rai thought they were finally heading home. For the two former political prisoners, home meant the refugee camps in eastern Nepal where they grew up after being expelled from Bhutan as children in the early 1990s.