The Committee to Protect Journalists, which wrote to Nepal’s Prime Minister on Tuesday protesting unpunished attacks on the media, issued the following statement today in response to news reports that unidentified gunmen shot and injured Gadhimai FM radio program coordinator Gyanendra Raj Misra on Thursday in Birgunj in the restive southern plains region…
“We are relieved that Gyanendra Raj Misra was not seriously injured in this shooting, the latest violent attack in a series of many involving the media,” said Bob Dietz, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator. “The government of Nepal must investigate these attacks, and combat the climate of impunity it has allowed to flourish to the detriment of press freedom.”