Nepal : two journalists beaten by police in Chitwan

Suresh Chandra Adhikary, the editor of the weekly Chure Sadnesh, and Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya, the editor of Kayakairan National Daily, were beaten by police on 16 June when the went to Mahendra Adarsha Hospital in the central district of Chitwan. The police used force to disperse a crowd of local residents who had begun to demolish the hospital’s perimeter wall in order to build a road. When the journalists showed their press cards, the police said they had been given orders to hit them. Thapaliya sustained a leg injury that needed stitches. Adhikary sustained injuries to his back.