(FNJ/IFEX) – On 28 August 2006, Bhola Mahato, the former chairman of Hariharipur Village in Dhanusha, an eastern district of Nepal, threatened media workers against reporting news about the village. According to the daily newspaper “Nepal Samacharpatra”, a few days earlier it had published news on the difficulties that the people of the Dom community […]
(FNJ/IFEX) – On 28 August 2006, Bhola Mahato, the former chairman of Hariharipur Village in Dhanusha, an eastern district of Nepal, threatened media workers against reporting news about the village.
According to the daily newspaper “Nepal Samacharpatra”, a few days earlier it had published news on the difficulties that the people of the Dom community (“untouchables”) in the village faced in trying to obtain drinking water. Mahato threatened the journalists of the paper, telling them not to disseminate news without his permission. He visited the office of the paper and said that they would face problems if they disobeyed him.
FNJ has condemned the incident and has demanded that Mahato not repeat such incidents in the future.