The government has transferred political detainees and kept some of them in solitary confinement, party sources say. Ram Chandra Poudel of the NC has been taken from the Police Training Centre to a police barrack in Tripureswor and locked up alone. The NC's Narhari Acharya has been taken to the Women's Training Centre and kept in solitary confinement while civil rights leaders Debendra Raj Pandey has been transferred to the Police Number 1 Division in Naxal. Similarly, rights activist Krishna Pahadi has been sent to the Police Number Two Division in Maharjganj. Pahadi had been taken to the Gangalal Heart Centre in Maharjganj for a checkup. Editor Shyam Shrestha and the NSU's ex-general secretary Basu Koirala are also at the police base in Maharajganj. Party sources say the government has relocated them because it wants to prevent interaction and exchange of information between the detainees and to inflict psychological torture on them. The detainees are among 12 picked up during demos in mid-January who are still in detention. UML general secretary Madhab K Nepal has been in house arrest since then. Others who are still in detention are: Gopal Man Shrestha, Bimalnedra Nidhi, Pradip Giri Prakash Sharan Mahat of the NC-D and Hridesh Tripathi of the Sadbhabana who are all at the APF base at Duwakot in Bhaktapur.