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[HCDX] Supreme Court says radio can air BBC Nepali Service
Date : 2005-12-08
Supreme Court says radio can air BBC Nepali Service
Kathmandu, 08 December, (Asiantribune.com): Nepal?s
Supreme Court ordered the government Wednesday to stop
action against Radio Sagarmatha and let it resume BBC
Nepali Service broadcast, according to a statement
issued by the radio station.
A division bench of Justices Khilraj Regmi and Damador
Prasad Sharma issued a stay order against government
action in response to a writ petition filed in
December 02 by the radio station, the statement said.
Government officials, aided by security personnel,
forced the radio station to shut down on November 27.
The security personnel also seized transmission
equipment from the radio station. The government
action came on the day BBC Nepali Service broadcast a
telephone interview with Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal
Dahal, aka Prachanda. The radio?s station manager
Ghamaraj Luintel said that the station had decided not
to broadcast the interview.
On November 29, the court ruled that FM stations in
the country can carry news broadcasts. However, the FM
station had not been allowed to broadcast BBC Nepali
service.
State clampdown on independent media, especially FM
stations, has continued ever since the royal power
grab of February 01 this year.
Via - Asian Tribune -
Regards & 73?s
Mukesh Kumar
MUZAFFARPUR
INDIA.
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