Incident Reports

Journalist Gets Life Threats

2013-05-02

Dhading/May 3 District reporter for Sagarmatha Television and news bureau chief of Radio Loktantra Manish Duwadi has been threatened with life on phone on May 1. Duwadi said the caller was unhappy with the news aired regarding the detained armed men made public by the District Police Office who were arrested in Maidi VDC on April 28. The called was rececived at 20.11 on May 1 from the phone number 012020994 issuing life threats and torching the radio station. Acting Director of Radio Loktantra, Deepak Koirala issued a statement on May 2 condemning the incident. Meanwhile, in Banke, the staffs of Higher Secondary Education Board on May 3 have threatened to beat up journalist and Mission Today daily’s publisher Binod Paudel and Nagarik reporter and Radio Pratibodh FM news coordinator Tekenkra Basyal in relation to the publication of news a day earlier. They were unhappy about the press photo published in Nagarik daily and Mission Today daily on May 2 about the staffs falling aspleep at their workplace. Basyal said HSEB staff Devendra Shahi made the call threatening to beat them up. Sitaram Adhikari धादिङ । वैशाख २० गते सगरमाथा टेलिभिजनका सम्वाद्दाता एवं रेडियो लोकतन्त्रका समाचार प्रमुख मनिष दुवाडीलाई वैशाख १८ गते राति अज्ञात समूहले टेलिफोन गरेर ज्यानमार्ने धम्की दिएको छ । वैशाख १५ गते राति धादिङको मैदी गाविसबाट गिरफ्तार गरी जिल्ला प्रहरी कार्यालय धादिङले सार्वजनिक गरेको हतियारधारीहरू बारे समाचार प्रसारण गरेको विषयलाई लिएर २४ घण्टाभित्र ज्यानमार्ने धम्की दिएको पीडितले बताए । वैशाख १८ गते राति ८ः०० बजेर ११ मिटेट जाँदा ०१२०२०९९४ नम्बरबाट फोन गरी अज्ञात ब्यक्तिले दुवाडीलाई घाँटी रेटी हत्या गर्ने र रेडियो स्टेशनसमेत जलाउने धम्की दिइएका हुन् । रेडियो लोकतन्त्रका कार्यकारी निर्देशक दीपक कोइरालाले वैशाख १९ गते एक प्रेस विज्ञप्ति जारी गरी पत्रकार दुवाडीलाई मार्ने र रेडियो स्टेशन जलाउने धम्कीको घटनाप्रति घोर भत्सर्ना गरेका छन् । सीताराम अधिकारी

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