From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Peoples War] Media repression in Nepal
AFP. 17 December 2001. Editor of weekly arrested in Kathmandu.
KATHMANDU -- The editor of a leftwing Nepali weekly newspaper, Gopal
Budhathoki, was arrested Monday for publishing a speech by a Maoist
leader, the president of a local journalists group said.
"Gopal Budhathoki, editor of Sanghu, was arrested Monday evening for
publishing an article of Maoist leader Prachand in the Monday issue,"
Shambhu Shrestha, president of the Press Forum said.
Budhathoki was first questioned at a police station in Maharajgunj, on
the outskirts of the capital, and then later at an army barracks,
Shrestha said.
No other details about the arrest were available.
The Nepalese government recently appealed to the media not to publish
anything that could encourage Maoist rebels in their fight for a
communist republic.
The restrictions were imposed after Maoist rebels broke a four-month
ceasefire with the government on November 24 by launching a string of
attacks on the army and police that have killed as many as 500 people.
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Barry Stoller
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews
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