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Kathmandu Monday June 11, 2001 Jestha 29, 2058.
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Release of journalists demanded nationwide
Post Report
KATHMANDU, June 10- Condemnations against the arrest of the
editor and publishers of the Kantipur national daily are pouring in from across the
country on the fifth day of their detention, Sunday.
In Damauli, the Federation of Nepalese Journalists and Nepal
Press Union submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister through the Chief District
Officer, demanding the immediate release of the arrested journalists.
In their joint statement, the organisations condemned the
arrest as a direct interference with press freedom which is likely to send a negative
message to the general public at the time of national tragedy.
Likewise, in Syangja, representatives of political parties,
human rights activists, businessmen and the general public have expressed their serious
concern over the arrest of the journalists. All of them have demanded their immediate and
unconditional release.
The Chairman and Vice-chairmen of the District Development
Committee, Ram Bahadur Thapa and Lakshmipati Poudel, Mayor of the Putalibazar
municipality, Umeshchandra Thapa, former Chairman of the District Congress Committee, Shri
Prasad Gharti, Chairman of the Landless Squatters’ Problem Resolution Committee,
Bishwa Prem Adhikari, secretary of the CPN(UML) district committee, Prem Narayan Poudel,
leader of the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, Mahesh Kumar Shreshtha, human rights activist,
Sashi Kumar Upadhyaya, lawyer Tulsi Giri and entrepreneur Janak Aryal, among others, have
condemned the arrest of the journalists, and demanded their immediate release.
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