Articles by Freedom Forum
Journalist taken hostage, receives death threat
Paras Timsina was held by unknown assailants who warned him that he would be killed if he reported on the abduction.
Newspaper office vandalised in Kathmandu
Nine unidentified people barged into the “Naya Patrika” office at 10:30am, cut the telephone wire, smashed a computer and broke an editor’s desk, all in retaliation for a crime story the paper had recently published.
Daily threatened over satirical cartoon
Khagendra Basnet, a distributor for the daily “Nigarani” newspaper, was accosted and warned that the paper’s offices would be burned down.
Journalist receives death threat from police officer
Gambhira Sahani threatened to kill journalist Bikash Agrawal because of a news story he published in “Bypass”, a local daily.
Youth Association Nepal chairman threatens to shut newspaper and jail its editor
At a gathering in Biratnagar, YAN chairman Mahesh Basnet said, “The day a new constitution is drafted in our favour, we will close down ‘Nagarik News’ and send its editor, Narayan Wagle, to jail.”
Journalist threatened on Facebook
An underground armed group posted a threatening message to Santosh Yadav on a Facebook page.
District Court to refile case against suspected killers of journalist
The case filed by the victim’s wife in 2007 was withdrawn by the then UCPN-Maoist government in 2009, under the guise that the case was of a political nature.
Editor receives threatening phone call
A person representing a financial institution warned editor Krishna Gautam to only write positive stories about the institution or face the consequences.