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[HCDX] Nepal govt closes down radio station, arrests journalists
Nepal govt closes down radio station, arrests journalists
Kathmandu, Nov 28 (PTI) Nepal police seized equipment from a radio
station and arrested four journalists and a technician to stop the
broadcast of an interview with top Maoist leader Prachanda, reports
said.
A two-member police team raided the Radio Sagarmatha staion late
last night and seized transmission equipment and also arrested four
journalists and a technician -- Durga Karki, Dipak Bahadur Aryal, Dipak
Raj Pandey and Punya Bhandari and Rajendra Rijal, the Kantipur
Online reported.
Durga Karki, a woman, was later released.
The policemen left two separate letters from the Ministry of Information
and Communications at the radio station, one asking the station to stop
operation until further notice and the other asking to handover
tranmission equipment, the report said.
"It is learnt that the government raided Radio Sagarmatha for
attempting to carry a BBC Nepali service relay broadcast that included
the interview of Maoist leader Pushpa KUmar Dahal aias Pranchanda."
The interview with Prachanda dealt with the recent understanding
between the politial parties and Maoist ultras to work towards the
resolution of the conflict in the country, the report said.
Condemning the police action, chairman of the radio station, Laxman
Upreti in a statement said: "Nepal has been the South Asian country
pioneering the role of FM radio in informing the public and Radio
Sagarmatha has been the vanguard of this movement. The action by
the government is a dagger to the heart of our radio revolution." PTI
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