Police took several journalists into custody from media offices on Friday, October 30. According to Setopati and Kendrabindu, those detained included Bishwamani Subedi of Nepal Press, Dhiraj Basnet of DNKhabar and Shobhraj Baral of Motivate News, and plainclothes police also went to the office of Naya Patrika.
Prime Minister Balen Shah has instructed the authorities concerned to free the detained journalists and to stop entering newsrooms to detain or harass reporters, according to his communications and research adviser, Deepa Dahal. She said the Prime Minister, his secretariat and the Prime Minister's Office had no part in the detentions and had not been told of them beforehand.
1 article
Prime Minister Balen Shah has told the authorities to free journalists police detained on Friday and to stop entering newsrooms to detain reporters, his adviser said.
Read the full report
