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Home Minister’s Clarification of Secret Agents
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On the evening of October 8, 2009, in the press conference held at the Ministry of Home, Home Minister Bhim Rawal has said that the government has no other reasons for including reporters in the security committee except for cooperation of reporters on enforcing the Special Security Plan. The government has decided to include at least three reporters on the security committee at the center and then three reporters on each committee at the district level committees, too.
On October 8, 2009, Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) has threatened to launch a nationwide protest against the government’s plan on making reporters the government’s secret agents. Members of the Central Committee of the FNJ have said that the government’s plan on keeping reporters on the security committee is a serious setback to the free press and is shame on the whole media sector.
Some members of the FNJ have said that if reporters join the government’s security agent then they would ceased to be reporters, as they do not follow the code of conduct prescribed for the reporters and the FNJ needs not consider them as the true reporters and fight for their rights.
