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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Shreedeep Rayamajhi <weaker41 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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