(CEHURDES/IFEX) – According to the “Kantipur Daily”, the local administration has released thirty-seven of thirty-eight journalists and other individuals who were taken into custody on Thursday 29 November 2001 in the western town of Butwal. The police had taken them into custody from a reception organised by High-Tech Publication Pvt. Ltd., which publishes the daily […]
(CEHURDES/IFEX) – According to the “Kantipur Daily”, the local administration has released thirty-seven of thirty-eight journalists and other individuals who were taken into custody on Thursday 29 November 2001 in the western town of Butwal. The police had taken them into custody from a reception organised by High-Tech Publication Pvt. Ltd., which publishes the daily “Jana Sangharsha”. According to Bal Krishna Chapagain, editor of “Jana Sangharsa”, who was also arrested, the whereabouts of the daily’s consultant editor, Basanta Pokhrel, are still unknown.
The authorities had even taken into custody the local representatives of the state-owned Nepal Television and National News Agency, who were later released. Over a dozen journalists are still in custody in different parts of Nepal, including Kathmandu.
