The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, has condemned the intentional neglect and mistreatment of an imprisoned Nepali journalist that lead to the journalist's death. On October 4, Nepali journalist Maheshwor Pahari, died from tuberculosis after authorities repeatedly refused Pahari’s pleas for...
New York, October 5, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists today held the Nepalese authorities responsible for the death of an imprisoned reporter who died after being denied proper medical treatment. Maheshwar Pahari, 30, who worked for the weekly Rastriya Swabhiman, died of tuberculosis on Tuesday, according to local journalist groups. Pahari died in a hospital in Pokhara, 80 miles (130...
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has condemned a series of recent measures by King Gyanendra's government that discriminate against the independent press, especially new directives determining how state advertising will be allocated to the media. "Nepal's independent media have in turn been the victims of threats, discrimination and repression, but they have continued to resist all of the government's arbitrary...
Irked by the partial classification of newspapers, a group of publishers, editors and journalists on Friday, forced the Chairman of Press Council Nepal (PCN) Mathvar Singh Basnet off his chair and locked his office protesting against PCN's "unfair and biased" classification of newspapers, reports on Saturday said. Journalists from Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, who had reached the PCN office...
KATHMNANDU, Sept. 23: About 2,881 newspapers and journals have been registered in the country during the fiscal year 061-062. Out of this, only 557 newspapers are published. And only 322 of them are said to be regular, it is stated in the 30th annual report of the Nepal Press Council. The Council has been issuing the annual report every year. Among the newspapers, those in A’ category are...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, has welcomed the release of journalist Harihar Singh Rathour, but is deeply concerned for the safety of journalists in the Dailekh district. On September 21, journalist Harihar Singh Rathour was released from police custody in Dailekh District after being...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, is alarmed by the arrest of more than 80 journalists at a protest in Kathmandu and the exodus of journalists from Dailekh district, fearing for their lives. "Press freedom and respect for the rights of journalists in Nepal are being shot to pieces by a...
Hours after their detention, more than 80 journalists, who protested against government's continued crackdown on media, have been released even as 17 scribes in a western Nepal district have decided to leave the area after allegedly receiving threats from local Army. The 81 journalists, released late last night, were detained earlier in the day at Ratnapark, a restricted area at the centre of...
KATHMANDU, Sept 16 - Police cracked down on journalists demonstrating peacefully in Kathmandu on Friday, arresting about 80 journalists. Most of them were picked up by police before the protest meet. They were released in the evening. Defying the government ban on demonstrations and rallies, journalists assembled at Ratnapark and chanted slogans demanding immediate restoration of press freedom and...
The International Federation of Journalists, the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, today welcomed the announcement of a unilateral three month cease-fire by the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. "This is a very positive sign that Nepal can reach a peaceful resolution to a situation that has seen journalists aggressively targeted and attacked by both...
