He was also told that the police had already arrested other Nationalist leaders.
A determined effort was made to arrest the leaders and break up the organization of the gang.
While illegal, most of the meetings are known to authorities who keep close watch and sometimes move in to fine or arrest the leaders.
Now they're not so good - he has arrested our leaders, killed our people.
Opposition figures said the police arrested several political leaders soon after the declaration of the emergency.
The release suggests the Government is reluctant to arrest leaders of the democracy movement.
A year later, the king reversed his decision, dissolved Parliament and arrested top political leaders.
Even arresting its leaders failed to slow the movement, instead giving them a new audience in the courts of the nation.
Many in the opposition have called on the government to arrest the Hindu council's leaders as threats to law and order.
A cavalry troop arrived and arrested the leaders in January 1901.