(CEHURDES/IFEX) – On 19 October 2003, unidentified individuals abducted Baikuntha Bhandari, co-editor of “Nepal Today” magazine, from his residence in Dhumbarahai, Kathmandu. His whereabouts are currently unknown. The daily “Nepal Samacharpatra” reported that, in an 18 October telephone call, Bhandari was told to pay 200,000 Nepalese rupees (approx. US$ 2,700) or he would be killed. […]
(CEHURDES/IFEX) – On 19 October 2003, unidentified individuals abducted Baikuntha Bhandari, co-editor of “Nepal Today” magazine, from his residence in Dhumbarahai, Kathmandu. His whereabouts are currently unknown. The daily “Nepal Samacharpatra” reported that, in an 18 October telephone call, Bhandari was told to pay 200,000 Nepalese rupees (approx. US$ 2,700) or he would be killed.
CEHURDES condemns the journalist’s abduction and calls for disclosure of his whereabouts and his immediate release. The organisation further urges all concerned parties to stop interfering in the activities of journalists and free expression activists.
