Freedom Forum

A member of the Constituent Assembly warned a journalist and camera operator that their safety could not be taken for granted if they continued to report on him.

In separate incidents, protesting students burned copies of “Nagarik” newspaper and several journalists were threatened with physical aggression.

The report is a result of media monitoring from 16 December 2011 to 15 January 2012.

Members of organisations affiliated to Madhes-based parties set fire to copies of “Kantipur Daily” over an article published in the daily.

A reporter with the local Bheri FM, Tirtha Jaishee, was beaten up and robbed by an unknown gang while he was on his way to the station’s office.

Journalist Heman Yatri was assaulted due to his reporting on a domestic violence case.

Freedom Forum has learned that the prime minister is under pressure to grant political amnesty to the UCPN-Maoist cadres accused of killing Dekendra Thapa in 2004.

A cadre from the ruling UCPN-Maoist in Dailekh district threatened to kill Govinda KC over a news story he wrote about a troubled local woman in the December 10 issue of the paper.