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Kathmandu/New Delhi: Police in Nepal on Friday (October 30) took into custody at least three journalists and attempted to apprehend the Naya Patrika Daily‘s editor Khagendra Pant and senior correspondent Nabaraj Mainali as well.

Those taken into custody were released after a few hours. Police spent two hours in the newsroom of the Naya Patrika Daily and left the office after urging Pant and Mainali to appear before the cybercrime bureau.

Police had also picked up Bisomani Subedi, a senior correspondent of Nepal Press, an online outlet. Its chief editor Matrika Poudel as well as chairman Bindu Raj Lamsal were summoned by the cyber bureau and taken into custody.

Similarly, police tried to apprehend journalists from Diyopost, an online outlet.

Neither the Nepal police nor government agencies have said anything about why the journalists were detained........

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