LINED UP: Armed police block a crowd of hundreds of demonstrators on the Ring Road at Sanepa from entering a \'no-rally\' zone on Saturday afternoon. (PIC: MARTY LOGAN)

CAN I COME IN? The head of the UN\'s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Kathmandu, Ian Martin, at the gate of the Nepal Police Academy at Maharajganj during a curfew on Tuesday afternoon to visit detainees there. (PIC: MIN BAJRACHARYA)

THE BAR ON WAR PATH: Members of the Nepal Bar Association marching towards Maitighar on Thursday just before riot police stopped them and beat them back. There were 400 people present at the demonstration where rubber bullets were fired and three lawyers were injured. (PIC: RAM HUMAGAIN/NEPALNEWS.COM)

GON: A pro-democracy activist paints over a sign at a government training centre. \'His Majesty\'s Government of Nepal\' was replaced with "Government of Nepal\'. (PIC: RAMESWOR BOHARA)

ATITHI DEBO BHABA: Nine tourists from Britain, Israel and Germany were detained by riot police in Thamel after a pro-democracy rally in which up to 300 tourists took part. They were released after six hours. (PIC: MIN BAJRACHARYA)

GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES: The Seto Macchendranath chariot enters Lagan Tole as it was being pulled across town on Monday in the middle of a curfew. (PIC: MIN BAJRACHARYA)