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SPJ urges the government to stick to its commitment to a free press
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The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), an organization of American professional journalists, has said that it hopes the government will conduct a fair investigation on the president of Kantipur Media Group, Kailash Sirohia.
SPJ President Assanti Blaise Hopkins issued a statement demanding the release of President Sirohia and urged the government to stand by its commitment to a free and unfettered press.
President Hopkins said in a statement, 'We have just learned that Kailash Sirohia, the publisher of Nepal's leading daily newspaper Kantipur, has been arrested on the instructions of the Home Minister . In fact, it is the home minister who should be investigated serially.'
President Hopkins has said that they also have questions with the Nepal Journalists Federation about the real purpose of Sirohia, even if the police investigates citizenship. Similarly, it is mentioned in SPJ's statement that there is a suspicion that the entire press world is being tried to be deceived by arresting Sirohia in a vindictive manner.
The president of Kantipur Media Group, Sirohia, was arrested from the office on Tuesday on the pretext that the citizenship number given by the district administration matched that of another person. On Wednesday, the District Court Dhanusha has given the police 3 days to investigate Sirohia.
The police team went to the office on the eighth floor of the Kantipur office to arrest President Sirohia while he was at work trampling the democratic practice of not allowing security agencies of the state to enter the office of the independent press. A team including SSP Sanukumar Bhattarai and SP Ravindra Regmi of the Valley Crime Investigation Office Kathmandu entered the working room with police officers including Bardi.
On Tuesday in Kantipur, Gorkha Media published news under the title of embezzlement of 958.1 million rupees by four cooperatives, during the period when Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane was the managing director of the company, 803.1 million rupees were received from cooperatives in Gorkha Media. A large number of police were mobilized in the Kantipur office complex and Thapathali road from early morning.
Sirohia was taken away by Bardidhari police in the presence of journalists federation, media society, lawyers, civil leaders, parliamentarians, various media publishers and journalists at the Kantipur office complex.
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