Posts Tagged ‘nepal’
April 5th, 2012
The executive editor of a regional daily newspaper in
Nepal has been
brutally murdered. Yadav Poudel, from Mechi Times, and who has also worked for Kathmandu-based Avenues Television station and the “Rajdhani” national daily newspaer was found murdered in the early hours of Wednesday morning (4 April). Preliminary investigations suggest the journalist was stabbed to death at around 12.30am on Wednesday morning.
August 31st, 2011
Khagendra Basnet, distributor of a local daily called Nigarani,
was threatened on 22 August in eastern
Nepal. According to reports, the individual harassed Basnet and threatened to burn down the daily’s facilities on the account of a cartoon published in the newspaper’s satirical section, Gaijatre. The section is named after the
Gaijatre festival, also known as the festival of cows, in which important and powerful members of society are mocked.
August 15th, 2011
Nepali journalist Kishor Budhathoki was
brutally assaulted in eastern Nepal on 11 August. According to
Republica, Budhathoki was attacked for a piece he wrote about domestic violence. He is currently in a critical condition. Budhatoki writes for The Himalayan Times and Annapurna Post, and also serves as vice president of the local chapter of the
Federation of Nepali Journalists, a press freedom watchdog.
February 28th, 2011
Chief editor Ram Pukar Raut, and editor Pravin Sharma Jha, of the New Times Today have been
arrested by police in the Southern Nepalese district of Rautahat. They were charged with having links with a militant underground group, and printing a press release from the group. Sources from the newspaper assert that the arrests were a response to an article in the newspaper alleging that the police had taken bribes from an animal smuggler.
June 25th, 2010
New Delhi’s Central Board of Film Classification has
refused to certify the documentary
Flames of the Snow. The body stated that any film which romanticises and promotes the violence of the Maoist groups in Nepal is inappropriate viewing for the general public. The feature documents over 200 years of relations between Nepalese rebels and the Indian establishment. The director of the film, Ashish Srivastava and its Kathmandu-based producers, Group for International Solidarity, intend to
launch a campaign to oppose the banning. Another film entitled, Village of Widows, which features Benazir Bhutto vehemently criticising the Indian state and the burning of an Indian flag in Kashmir has also been
censored by the authorities.
June 22nd, 2010
The Nepalese government has
banned a social studies textbook after complaints from Muslim groups. The book has been criticised for including factual inaccuracies and an “erroneous interpretation” of Islam: one particular illustration is alleged to portray a feminised image of the prophet Mohammed. This marks the first time religious outcry has caused the banning of a book in Nepal, where Hinduism was removed from its position at the state religion in 2006.
April 22nd, 2010
Hindu Yuva Sangh
burnt copies of the leading Nepali newspapers, Kantipur and Annapurna Post on 18 April in the southern city of Birgunj. The newly formed group —- which advocates the restoration of Nepal’s Hindu nation status — torched hundreds of copies of the dailies, claiming they did not cover relevant issues pertaining to the HYS.
March 15th, 2010
Thirty-four Tibetans were
arrested in Kathmandu last Wednesday, for staging demonstrations. The protests, outside a Buddhist monastery and the Chinese Embassy, were commemorating the 1959 Tibetan uprising. This crackdown on pro-Tibet actions coincides with an
increase in security measures in Lhasa. 2,800 police officers have been deployed in the city in anticipation for potential violence this week during the second anniversary of the 2008 riots.
