Nepal: journalist threatened by municipal chief
Event- Country
- Nepal
- Initial Date
- Aug 12, 2024
- Event Description
Siraha based correspondent with Prime Television Mukesh Yadav received threat for reporting news critical to a local representative on August 12. Siraha lies in Madhesh Province of Nepal.
Freedom Forum's representative for the province Rajan Singh reported that Yadav received threat after publication of news on a web portal www.newskarkhana.com on August 7. The news about Dhangadhimai Municipality's staffs and local representatives' involvement in illegal money collection from consumers for drinking water borehole installation in the Municipality was also broadcasted on the television channel on August 11.
Thereafter, the municipal chief Shiv Shankar Mahato called on reporter Yadav's mobile phone and threatened to remove the news from both media. Chief Mahato referred to the reporter as useless journalist and asked him to verify the news or face consequences. The Mayor also threatened another journalist Manilal Bishwakarma working in Nayapatrika national daily. "But we chose to stay silent and continue reporting", said reporter Yadav.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Online
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Government
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 26.754177014651102
Longitude: 86.4043389588478
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 12 August 2024, news correspondent Mukesh Yadav received a threat via mobile call after online publication of news that the municipal staff was allegedly involved in illegal money collection from consumers of drinking water from the borehole in the municipality by Shiv Shanker Mahato, the municipal chief of Dhangadhimai, Nepal.