August 7, 2002	Wednesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 27,1423

PARIS, Aug 6: The Reporters Sans Frontieres has accused the Nepal government of “misusing powers accorded to it under the state of emergency to mount a witch-hunt” against journalists.

The RSF has sent a letter to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba protesting a recent wave of arrests of Nepalese journalists.

Earlier this year the RSF had declared Nepal to be “the world’s largest prison for journalists”.

The organization noted that repeated attempts at alerting world public opinion has had one important result _ the decision by the Federation of Nepalese Journalists to undertake a press campaign in the pages of newspapers to make the Nepalese public aware of what was happening in their country.