‘We are concerned about the many journalists and media workers killed, attacked, injured and detained in defiance of international law’ say UN rapporteurs.
KATHMANDU, Jan 31: The Special Court has allowed the suspended managing director of Nepal Telecom, Sunil Paudel, and the suspended executive director of Security Printing Center (SPC), Bikal Paudel, to be detained for a second time for seven days.
Media Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty hired Covington & Burling to advocate for the release of Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the media organization detained in Russia. Kurmasheva, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen, was arrested in October while visiting family in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent. She was one of two…