‘Press freedom limited to newspapers’
Ministry of Information and Communications in Nepa, has claimed that FM radios cannot enjoy press freedom as guaranteed in Article 13 of the Constitution of Nepal 1990, urging the apex court to legitimize its curbs on news broadcast by independent radios.
Minister for Information and Communications, Tanka Dhakal, and Secretary Lok Man Singh Karki, said this in letters on Sunday. The letters were written in response to the apex court’s show cause notice on August 10, to the minister and secretary regarding their warning that the operating license of Nepal FM would be seized on the charge of airing news. The court had stayed the action against the radio station saying it was related to the people’s right to be informed.
“Press freedom is limited to the press [newspapers] only,” both Dhakal and Karki have argued in the letters.
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