June 15, 2002	Saturday	Rabi-us-Sani 3, 1423

PARIS, June 14: International journalists’ rights organization, Reporters Sans Frontieres, has characterized Nepal, where presently 37 newsmen are detained in its jails, as “the world’s most important prison for journalists”.

The decision comes in the wake of revelations made recently by the Paris-based media watchdog, according to which Nepal allegedly represses its journalists and does not apparently care to heed anybody’s calls for moderation.

In a letter to Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, RSF’s secretary-general Robert Menard notes, “we have regularly denounced the current repression against Nepalese journalists, but your government does not apparently want to heed to these calls for moderation.”