[Chapter-delegates] Urgent suggestion

[Shreedeep Rayamajhi]

This is the current progress in the case

Press Council Nepal (PCN), Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and
Dllibazaar Kanya Campus forged a five-point agreement on Sunday, clearing
deck for the release of online journalists arrested on charge of cyber
crime<http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Journo+charged+with+cyber+crime&NewsID=380963>
for
the content published online.

According to the agreement, the PCN has agreed to take immediate action
against the accused after an investigation as “they have breached the
journalist code of conduct,” and the campus to withdraw the charges against
them.

In the agreement signed by Bhola Nath Regmi, Campus Chief of Kanya Campus,
FNJ Secretary Jagat Nepal, PCN Chairman Borna Bahadur Karki, they agreed to
ask the concerned website to retract the news material that claimed
unnatural sexual activities are done the campus' toilet.

Police on Thursday had arrested Santosh Bhattarai, operator of the news
portal www.nepaliheadlines.com and correspondent of the portal Sushil Panta
for news published on the online.

The Metropolitan Police Range Hanumandhoka had filed the cyber crime case
against them according to Electronic Transaction Act 2008.

They were remanded to seven days in police custody on Friday.

http://thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Agreement+to+withdraw+cyber+crime+charges+over+online+journos&NewsID=381138
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <
> apisan at unam.mx> wrote:
>
>> A final note: the general global trend, recommended by many international
>> instances, is to treat defamation only under civil law and not under
>> criminal law. That is a further limit to the abuse of the criminalization
>> of speech and opinions as a means to exert power and control, while it does
>> seem to leave room enough for people to defend against real defamation and
>> slander.
>
>
>
> The downside of this is, of course, that civil courts tend to favor those
> with the deepest pockets. Theoretically criminal courts are above such
> concerns.
>
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