Nepal's state of emergency --> More than 30 journalists held captive Posted by Scott Manning on January 11, 2002 | Comments (3)

More than 30 journalists have been arrested in Nepal since the government imposed a state of emergency in November, a leading Nepalese journalists' organisation said on Friday.

"The journalists are arrested by the police and are later handed over to the army security who are mentally torturing them during their custody," Tara Nath Dahal of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists said, according to the AFP news agency.Full Story...