Nepal: media worker assaulted, threatened for covering unpaid workers
Event- Country
- Nepal
- Initial Date
- Apr 12, 2021
- Event Description
Producer and reporter with https://www.nepalaaja.com/ (a web-based news portal), Madhav Prasad Guragain, was attacked and issued death threat while reporting in Kathmandu on April 12. Kathmandu is the federal capital of Nepal.
Talking to Freedom Forum's media monitoring desk, reporter Guragain said, "I reached the construction site of Kathmandu View Tower to report on the complaints of sub-contractor. As I started to record the video from my mobile, contractor Manoj Bhetuwal seized my mobile and threw it."
Guragain had reached the site with one of the sub-contractor who had complained of nonpayment after finishing his construction assignment.
"Supervisor Gyan Bahadur Ray issued death threat to me. Even the police officers did not take any action against the incident", informed Guragain.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Death threat
- Intimidation and Threats
- Violence (physical)
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Corporation
- Corporation (others)
- Corporation
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 27.707233722556943
Longitude: 85.31984375100076
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 12 April 2021, Madhav Prasad Guragain, media worker, was assaulted and threatened with death by the holder of a construction project for reporting workers were being unpaid in Kathmandu, Nepal.