12 March 2007

Alert

Staff of newspaper publishing house attacked, threatened by members of political group


Incident details

Gangaram Bhandari, Ghanashyam Adhikari, Amar Bahadur Magar

media worker(s)

(CEHURDES/IFEX) - Kantipur Publications's vehicle was attacked and vandalized by MPRF (Madhesi People's Rights Forum) cadres on 8 March 2007 in Duhabi Bazaar, Sunsari, an eastern district of Nepal.

Kantipur staffers Gangaram Bhandari and Ghanashyam Adhikari and the driver of the vehicle, Amar Bahadur Magar, sustained injuries from the attack. They were hit with beer bottles and stones on the drive back to the eastern town of Biratnagar after dispatching copies of the "Kathmandu Post" and "Kantipur" in Rautahat district.

According to the "Kathmandu Post", the cadres also threatened to "cut them into pieces if the publications did not carry their news in the Friday issue."

FNJ condemned the attack, and urged the MPRF to publicly apologize for the incident and to provide compensation to the victims.



Source

Federation of Nepali Journalists
Media Village, Sinamangal
Kathmandu
Nepal
fnjnepal (@) mail.com.np
Phone: +977 1 4112763
Fax: +977 1 4112785
 

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