(RSF/IFEX) – On 12 January 2005, the security forces released Shakti Kumar Pun, of the national daily “Rajdhani”. Bambahadur Malla, an official in Rukum district (western Nepal), asked the journalist where he would be staying and ordered him not to leave town, but Pun returned to his newspaper’s head office in the Kathmandu valley. The […]
(RSF/IFEX) – On 12 January 2005, the security forces released Shakti Kumar Pun, of the national daily “Rajdhani”.
Bambahadur Malla, an official in Rukum district (western Nepal), asked the journalist where he would be staying and ordered him not to leave town, but Pun returned to his newspaper’s head office in the Kathmandu valley.
The “Rajdhani” correspondent told RSF that he still felt threatened both by the security forces and Maoist rebels. He said that Malla had strongly advised him to give up journalism, but Pun said he was determined not to give in to the threats. “I will continue [exercising my profession] despite all sorts of challenges,” he said.
The rebels, who held Pun captive for three months between September and December 2004 [before he was rescued by the Nepalese army], refused to acknowledge his release.
