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Mediapersons underscore safety of press
Added At: 2012-05-22 12:37 AM
Last Updated At: 2012-05-22 12:37 AM
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
KATHMANDU: Media persons and representatives of media houses today protested attacks on media and mediapersons.
Speaking at a programme here in the capital, they said attacking the media on the ground that journalists wrote news, was unjustified and inappropriate.
They have decided to sit for talks with bandh enforcers to make them commit that they will refrain from attacking the press. They also said they were being very patient at the eleventh hour of the statute writing process. Participants at the interaction comprised members of Federation of Nepali Journalists, Press Union Nepal, Press Chautari Nepal, and Revolutionary Journalists Union.
FNJ also submitted a memorandum to Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar. The team led by FNJ chairman Shiva Gaunle urged him to provide security to media workers.
They complained to the Home Minister saying mediapersons were beaten up, press vehicles vandalised and torched under the very nose of the police. They also demanded compensation for the loss and damage to vehicles and free treatment of injured journalists.
The Home Minister promised a special strategic security plan for the safety of mediapersons. Yesterday, dozens of media vehicles were torched, media persons were attacked by Bandh enforcers belonging to NEFIN, drawing condemnation from all sides.
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Posted on: 2012-05-22 03:42:20
Journalist's job is to report news and events, not to stop an invited guest from speaking. By stopping Pashang Sherpa from speaking, the vigilante journalists of Nepal have violated Sherpa's fundamental rights to speech. This journalist Karki should be banned from journalism, his license should be revoked and put in prison. These vigilantes journalists are real shame to professional journalism. aadibasi janajati, Nepal
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Posted on: 2012-05-24 15:50:53
Aadibasi Janajati le matra hoina sabai le pitchha. Ulta ultaa news diney, identity-based-federal states ko meaning vaneko 'desh tukrine ho' vanera duniya hawa guff diney ko interviews, articles diney lai sabai le pitchha. Ma Nepali, Aus