Reporters Without Borders has the report:
Reporters Without Borders has renewed an appeal for the release of 11 journalists currently being held in prisons in Nepal.
Six of those being held were among at least 16 journalists security forces picked up after King Gyanendra seized power on 1 February and declared a state of emergency.
Nepal was already holding five journalists before the royal coup, making it, after China, Cuba and Eritrea, the world’s fourth largest prison for journalists.
“Until they are released we will continue to urge the international community, particularly the European Union, to apply political and economic sanctions against Nepal”, the worldwide press freedom organisation said. It was particularly regrettable that Nepal was using exceptional and anti-terror laws to detain the journalists, it added.
Also, three newspaper editors were called in for questioning after printing black op-ed pages after the coup.
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