Freedom Forum

Freedom Forum recorded an upsurge in press freedom violations in Nepal in the past year, affecting nearly 300 journalists, says the group in a report issued on World Press Freedom Day.

Two dozen IFEX members call on Turkey to free prominent translator and women’s rights activist Ayşe Berktay, winner of the 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.

A Nepalese district court has sentenced two members of the CPN-UML’s youth wing who had brutally assaulted a journalist in 2011.

A Nepalese reporter was threatened by an actor who was angered over his piece on Nepali film, while various activists protesting violence against women were detained for a few hours.

After some of its cadres were accused of attacking a human rights defender, the Youth Force, a sister wing of a Nepalese political party, began exerting pressure to ensure that the criminal charges are lifted.

A journalist was assaulted by Maoist Party supporters in Kathmandu while another reporter was attacked by agitated hospital employees in eastern Nepal.

Nepalese police arrested four Tibetan refugees who had gathered in Kathmandu to protest and commemorate a Tibetan monk who died after self-immolating.

Nepalese rights defender Yadav Bastola was attacked by four unidentified persons over his commentary on human rights violations committed during the insurgency period.