Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES has condemned the brief detention of a journalist working with an FM radio station and the threat by the government against another FM radio station in western Nepal. Plain-clothed police personnel entered the newsroom of Sri Nagar FM radio station in the western district of Palpa on the afternoon of 28 January […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – The Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES) – a Kathmandu-based freedom of expression monitoring group – condemns the government’s various recent acts of intimidation against journalists. CEHURDES also condemns the attacks on the office of a pro-government media organization and the vehicle of a newspaper. On 26 January, the local administration […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES condemns the detention of two journalists and the manhandling of around half a dozen media personnel in various parts of the country. According to information received in Kathmandu, on 25 January 2006, police arrested Dil Bahadur Air, a journalist affiliated with “Janamat” weekly, published in the far-western district of Dadeldhura, on charges […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES, a Kathmandu-based freedom of expression monitoring group, condemns the latest attacks on journalists, the bombing of the relay station of the state-owned Nepal Television and the detention of a newspaper editor in far-western Nepal. In what have become on-going incidents of manhandling and attacks on media personnel, police manhandled a group of […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – The Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES) – a Kathmandu-based freedom of expression monitoring group – condemns the detention of over a dozen artists, poets and writers and manhandling of journalists in Kathmandu on 21 January 2006. Police intervened in a peaceful event organized to recite pro-democracy poems at New Baneswore […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES, a Kathmandu-based freedom of expression monitoring group, condemns the arrests of over one hundred political leaders, human rights activists and a senior journalist on 19 January 2006. In early morning raids, Nepal police arrested dozens of opposition leaders, student and youth activists, senior civil society leaders, human rights activists and a senior […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES is concerned about the safety of journalists Krishna Hari Ghimire and Dwarika Kafle. According to information compiled by CEHURDES, Kafle and Ghimire, editor and associate editor respectively of the weekly “Jana Prabhat”, published in Sindhuli district, have been displaced from their offices and have been staying in Kathmandu in recent days. Ghimire […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES welcomes the release of Nagendra Upadhyay, editor of “New Malika”, a Nepali-language weekly newspaper published from the far-western district of Kailali. Upadhyay had spent nearly six months in detention prior to his release. The District Administration Office (DAO) of Kailali released Upadhyay on 4 January 2006 on the condition that he report […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES, a Kathmandu-based press freedom monitoring group, condemns the manhandling of journalists Moti Poudel and Kamal Pant in the mid-western district of Surkhet on 2 January 2006, while they were on duty. A group of security personnel manhandled Poudel and Pant, among others, as they were covering the re-arrest of four persons at […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES condemns the 30 December 2005 attack on Bijay Bisfot, editor of the Kathmandu-based weekly newspaper “Sram” (“Labour”). Two unidentified persons entered Bisfot’s office and attacked him without provocation. Bisfot sustained serious injuries on his head and other parts of his body. The assailants fled from the scene immediately. Bisfot was taken to […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES, a Kathmandu-based press freedom monitoring group, has condemned the attack on journalist Laxmi Mishra and the manhandling of journalist Yem Birahi by security personnel in separate incidents. Mishra, a reporter with Dharan-based “Blast Times” daily, was injured on 21 December 2005 when he was covering a protest by students in the eastern […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES has welcomed an interim Supreme Court order directing the royal government to reverse a ban on the re-broadcasting of BBC Nepali Service over a leading FM radio station in the country. In its 7 December 2005 verdict, a division bench comprising Justices Khil Raj Regmi and Damodar Prasad Sharma ruled that there […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES condemns the harassment of Santosh Neupane, editor of “Hetauda Sandesh”, a daily published from the southern town of Hetauda, by a royal appointee. According to reports, Rabindra Chakravarty, the central development regional administrator appointed by the royal government, summoned Neupane to his office on 4 December 2005 and questioned him for nearly […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES welcomes the latest Supreme Court verdict that has paved the way for nearly 50 FM radio stations around the country to resume news broadcasts. On 30 November 2005 a division bench comprised of Justices Min Bahadur Rayamajhi and Anup Raj Sharma ordered the government not to implement its directive, issued over a […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – The following is a 27 November 2005 CEHURDES statement: CEHURDES condemns arrest of journalists, seizure of equipment from Radio Sagarmatha F. M. Kathmandu, Nov. 27 – The Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES), a Kathmandu-based press freedom monitoring group, strongly condemns the government’s act of raiding Radio Sagarmatha F. M., the […]

(CEHURDES/IFEX) – The following is a CEHURDES press release: CEHURDES condemns abduction of a journo by Maoists Kathmandu, Nov. 23 – The Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES), a Kathmandu-based press freedom monitoring group, condemns the abduction and manhandling of journalist Chandra Mani Kattel by Maoist rebels. On Tuesday (Nov. 22), Communist Party […]