Freedom Forum

Five of the eight individuals allegedly involved in the 2004 abduction and subsequent killing of Nepalese journalist Dekendra Thapa were arrested on 4 January 2013.

Nepalese journalist Jivan Sharma received a death threat after reporting on extortion at a school while journalist Harihar Singh Rathaur was threatened for covering a story on forest encroachment by political party members.

Some 30 assailants, who later claimed to belong to the Shiva Sena Nepal political party, stormed the offices of a media publishing house, assaulted some of the staff and questioned them about photographs published in a weekly paper.

A Nepalese journalist was threatened by a government minister’s secretary while another journalist was grilled by police over a critical report.

Upendra Thakur, a reporter with Kantipur Television in Nepal, received a death threat from a senior police official while reporting on a human rights violation.

Nepalese reporter Dinesh Thapa received a death threat over a story about the acquisition of citizenship certificates, while Rishiram Poudyal was threatened after reporting on gold smuggling.

A Nepalese journalist received a death threat from a timber entrepreneur while members of a party’s student wing were angered over media reports and set fire to a number of newspapers.

Members of Nepal’s Bhujel community set fire to a novel and threatened the book’s author whom they accused of having humiliated them.