Nepali Blogger Threatened

3/14/2007 in BLOGAN | 13 comments

Umesh Shrestha, the blogger behind hugely popular MySansar.com, has been threatened of ‘action within 24 hours if he publishes anything that directly or indirectly supports Maoists or terrorists’.

An email with subject line reading ‘last information’ by Maoists Defense Group, an anti-Maoists group not known so far, has threatened him. Bloggers Association of Nepal (BLOGAN) and NepaliVoices.com strongly condemn the threat and ask the who-so-ever behind it to let all the bloggers enjoy the ‘freedom of expression’.

From: Maoist Defense Group < maoistdefensegroup@yahoo.com>
Date: 02-Mar-2007 15:13
Subject: आन्तिम जानकारी
To: salokya@gmail.com
उमेश जी,
माओबादीलाई प्रत्यक्ष वा अप्रत्यक्ष रुप सहयोग वा हौसला वा आतन्कारी समुहलाई सहयोग पुग्ने कुनै पनि कुनै पनि समचार आजैका दिन देखी Post नगर्नको लागी तपाईलाई आन्तिम जानकारी गराइन्छ! यो मेल लाई कुनै Junk Mail वा फर्जी Mail को रुपमा लिएर नियम उलङ्घन गरेमा त्यसको कार्बाही २४ घन्टा भित्रमा देख्न पाउनु हुनेछ!

प्रचार बिभाग सचिब
प्रतिका(बिदेश बिभाग)

Remark:
यो सङठनको बिस्तार १२ वटा देशमा भैसकेको,५९ सदस्य केन्द्रिय कमिटि रहेको र केन्द्रिय कार्यालय चितवनमा रहेको र माओबादी बिरुधको पहिलो चरणको कर्बाही १-३ चैत्रमा गरिने जानकारी गराइन्छ!

Meanwhile, Dedicated to Daniel Pearl has a post that talks about the terrorists targeting journalist in Pakistan.

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  1. vahsek’s avatar

    vahsek on 3/15/2007 at 12:48 am

    i condemn it
    we stand together with umesh

  4. paribartan’s avatar

    paribartan on 3/15/2007 at 11:53 am

    I strongly condemn this dastardly threat against popular blogger Mr. Umesh Shrestha.

  6. Haisanlu’s avatar

    Haisanlu on 3/15/2007 at 6:21 pm

    I condemn this message but I am also concerned it has been turned into its opposite and messages on the web indicate that Maoists threatened umesh but the truth is the direct opposite.He has been threatened because he is thought to be sympathetic to Maoists.

    Can people please make it clear that anti Maoists are threatening umesh and make sure the truth is out there !

    Haisanlu

  8. Rajesh’s avatar

    Rajesh on 3/16/2007 at 10:37 am

    A lil. off topic…

    Hi,

    I need a favour from you and our other blogger friends,

    could you go through the link and vote for my blog,

    remember u got to sign up before giving vote otherwise it won’t be calculated..

    here is link

    http://inferno.aimk.org/bloghunt/vote.php?TopicID=3988&VoteStatus=yes

    thanx a lot in advance…..

    regards,
    Rajesh Rana

  9. harsha’s avatar

    harsha on 3/16/2007 at 1:23 pm

    I don’t know how Umesh became a supporter of Maoist. Maoist Defence Group is wrong to think so.
    Every body is free to expess their feeling in Loktantra. I condemn the threat. Keep on your job Umesh

  10. matyangra’s avatar

    matyangra on 3/16/2007 at 2:55 pm

    ma pni ninda garchhu
    tara maobadi ko support gareko ho bhane tyo pani ninda garchhu

  11. matyangra’s avatar

    matyangra on 3/16/2007 at 2:56 pm

    ma pani ninda garchhu

  12. nintynine’s avatar

    nintynine on 3/16/2007 at 3:46 pm

    I hope they are the fake people and just playing.