| Muting the Media: The Saga Continues
Journalists attacked. Death threats to journalists. Journalist’s land confiscated. Newspapers burned... IFJ describes it as a “shocking treatment of journalists.” As if that was not enough, a Maoist-affiliated Trade Union has helped make a media history (a bleak one, of course, and not heard of even during King Gyanendra’s absolute rule) by forcing Nepal Samarcharpatra, a major national daily newspaper to suspend its publication over what the newspaper's editor Pushkar Shrestha calls as “unrealistic demands.” Here is a piece condemning the Maoist group, and this one is with reactions from publishers.
• Constant threats, attacks force journalists to qauit, IFJ, June 20/07
• Stop Press, Nepali Times, June 22/07
• Newspaper Closure: Maoist Madness, United We Blog!, June 21/07
• Legal journalism training begins, Gorkhapatra, June 19/07
• Nepal Samachar- patra suspends publication, KoL, June 19/07
• Two newspapers are forced to suspend publication, CPJ, June 21/07
• Parties, FNJ flay interference in Kamana Group, KoL, June 21
• Publishers concerned over suspension, Gorkhapatra, June 21/07
• The karma of Nepali journalists, AsiaMedia, June 7/07
• 'Bad News' Hounds the Media, IPS, April 30/07