05 January 2008

UNITY OF NEPALESE BLOGGERS FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

By Harsha Man Maharjan

There is no heaven for journalists, activists, dissidents. Democracy demand toleration of criticism. Criticism paves ways for improvement.

What about authoritarian countries like Saudi Arab. Saudi government has been detaining a blogger Fouad Alfarhan on 10 December 2007. His crime was to post information about Saudi academics who were detained with charges of funding ‘terrorism’. According to report Saudi government is interrogating him for “doing campaign for these detained academic”. Saudi bloggers and bloggers from world are condemning Saudi government.

It is right time we think about Nepali bloggers’ welfare too. Any time any group can threat Nepali bloggers for their posting. I might be unaware to threats some Nepali bloggers had faced. Those who blog disclosing identity are vulnerable to these kinds of threats. WE NEED TO UNIT FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

1 comment:

Aakar said...

hahaha.........it's just a guff that a unity of nepalese bloggers......who cares other ????.........
and BLOGAN has already failed....wa!wa!.....
so,i've forget to think in topic like this.........coz it's only a waste of time....