Kathmandu. The Federation of Nepalese Journalists held a protest in Kathmandu this morning against the arrest of journalists and the terror created by the police by going to media houses. Under the leadership of the federation, the paper workers gathered in Maitighar Mandla regardless of the rain and protested.
On Friday evening, plainclothes police entered the newsroom and detained Nepalpress.com journalist Vishwamani Subedi, DN Khabar journalist Dheeraj Basnet, and Motivate News journalist Shobraj Baral.
Similarly, police in plain clothes entered the office of Naya Patrika to arrest journalist Navraj Mainali. When Mainali was not found, the police had a two-and-a-half-hour tussle with Khagendra Pant, the editor of Naya Patrika.
After the all-round protest against the arrest of the journalist, the Secretariat of Prime Minister Walendra Shah (Balen) claimed that the Prime Minister’s Office and the Secretariat had no involvement in it.
Deepa Dahal, the Prime Minister’s press and research expert, claimed that the Prime Minister did not even have prior information about the arrest of journalists through Facebook on Friday evening. After widespread protests, the police released all the journalists on Friday night.