(The following statement has been prepared by individuals concerned with the arrest and detention of journalist, activist and Himal Southasian's founding editor Kanak Mani Dixit by the Commission
(Since Kanak Mani Dixit's arrest on 22 April 2016, several organisations around the world have issued statements in his support and asking for his release.)
South Asians for
Editors and media figures as well as intellectuals and scholars have called for the release of Himal editor and prominent Nepali journalist Kanak Mani Dixit.
(On 2 May 2016, the Supreme Court of Nepal ordered the release of Kanak Mani Dixit, journalist, activist and Himal Southasian's founding editor, responding to a habeas corpus
Himal Southasian's founding editor and the Chairman of The Southasia Trust Kanak Mani Dixit has been taken in for questioning by the authorities of the CIAA (Commission for
