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Nepal/11March, Krishna Sen, Editor of Janadesh weekly who was arrested and imprisoned since 21 April, 1999 was ordered by supreme court to be released on thursday is reported disappearing from Rajbiraj prison. As the constitution’s forth organ, the press was attacked, now led to contempt another organ judiciary by the home administration.

The coalition government attacked on a press freedom by raiding a newspaper offices of Janadesh and Mahima on 5^th of January 1999. On that day there was a news report with photograph of a Maoist guerrilla attack at a police outpost in Bhattedanda, nearest of Kathmandu. Attack was occurred on 3^rd of January and thousands of police and commandos were surrounded the whole possible areas from where the guerrilla could escape. When Janadesh received a letter with photos which published in a front page. For this police should have appreciated to Janadesh instead targeting for publishing those news and photos which gave the information that the police operation to continue is useless in that area. Because the guerrillas have come out of the operation area and provided the photos to the press. But the police and home ministry failed to caught and save their outpost and became angry and attacked the press.

The police expressed their view that they are looking the editorial staffs and the Kathmandu reporter. Which led the series of raid and arrests on a press and the houses and residences of journalists. Police threatened press that press should stop to report about Maoist activities independently and should published the reports which police distributes. Police condemned the constitution of 1990 which restricted the attack on press. Later supreme court also released those who were arrested by police and explained that the act of police is illegal.

On April police arrested Krishna Sen editor of Janadesh, a member of editorial board of Kalam (Pen) quarterly magazine for literature and a progressive poet and imprisoned. The supreme court ruled to released him then he disappeared by police after about a month he was brought in Siraha district police custody where he was charged for weaponry and militant action. A journalist, a writer whose weapon or action was always a pen was charged for an attacked in a police posts. This was another inability of administration. How they are brutal. This story shows that how the police killed people in fake encounters, how the innocent citizens tortured and imprisoned in false charges. Any body who have a little sensible thinking can imagine that how the injustice is growing in Nepal.

Now 5 members full bench of supreme court headed by a chief justice Keshav Upadhyay ordered the police to release Sen from illegal custody but police instead of releasing him behaved with the decision of court as a toilet paper. It is contempt of democracy. It is also not possible without the direction of home minister, and he is also a deputy prime-minister. So the question is not only for Nepal but it is shameful to them who think that there is a democracy and a rule of law.

This is clearly a conspiracy by a corrupt government. Sen who is a journalist, who never went underground and never claim him as a Maoist worker also presented in a list of "Terrorist" or Maoist published by a home minister. In a same time when supreme court was saying after discussing over the false charge of home minister about Krishna Sen the home minister was reporting to his journalist friends that Sen is a Maoist and he is in prison. It is a proof of our government that how intelligent ministers we have. The journalists who are fighting to save the democratic rights are being forced to report that me and my friends would be terrorist if I don’t write the opposite of truth.

This game clearly shows that the government is using all it’s power to destroy the dialogue with the Maoist. For the table talk, Maoists just asking to treat their cadres as per the constitution is provides the rights. But the government exercising what the constitution and law don’t allow them.

At last we the journalists wanted to request the just people and the journalists of the world to fights for the human rights of a journalist who already imprisoned for serving the truth.

INSOF/Janak