Lawmakers in Nepal should reconsider several proposed laws that would threaten media freedom in the country if passed in their current form, the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom said today. The four bills are the Advertisement Regulation Bill, the IT Bill, the Nepal […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists dedicated to the furtherance and safeguarding of press freedom, welcomes recent commitments made by both the Nepalese government and the leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist) to respect the right to press freedom. Over the past eight years, […]

The International Press Institute’s (IPI) Nepal National Committee today welcomed the decision of police in Dailekh, in mid-western Nepal, to prosecute suspects allegedly involved in the 2004 abduction and subsequent killing of Dailekh-based journalist Dekendra Thapa. Dailekh district police arrested five individuals all belonging to the then-Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). A further four accused, […]

Last week’s threats against the chairman and editors of two Nepali newspapers over their coverage of the murder of media owner Jamim Shah on 7 February are a reminder that the media in Nepal are still in danger following the end of the ten-year-long civil war and in spite of commitments made over a year […]