From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Peoples War] Media repression in Nepal
KOL. 31 December 2001. Nepali daily editor interrogated.
KATHMANDU -- The editor in chief and publisher of Samacharpatra daily
vernacular Pushkar Lal Shrestha was on Monday summoned by Kirti Bahadur
Chand, the Chief District Officer of Kathmandu and interrogated in close
doors for over two hours.
Shrestha was summoned via telephone call and interrogated about a piece
of news in Monday's paper which quoted the Maoist supreme commander as
saying that the effects of Maoist movement had reduced considerably in
the urban areas in recent times.
This is the first time after the declaration of state of emergency that
a chief editor of a broadsheet daily has been interrogated by the local
authority regarding news content in the paper. It is learnt that the
interrogation was made under the directives of the Ministry of
Communications.
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Barry Stoller
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews
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