Nepal: media worker harassed by the police
Event- Country
- Nepal
- Initial Date
- Oct 14, 2022
- Event Description
Reporter at Nayapatrika national daily Bibek Pokhrel was misbehaved while reporting in Chitwan on October 4. Chitwan lies in Bagmati Province of Nepal.
According to the media reports, reporter Pokhrel had reached Chitwan Media College to report on the ongoing clash among the locals and police in the hospital premises. The clash broke when the victim families started protesting against the hospital administration demanding strict action against the doctor for his alleged carelessness leading to death of one of their family members.
Police officers misbehaved with the reporter while he was interviewing the victim families.
Freedom Forum is concerned over the incident as it is sheer violation of press freedom. FF strongly urges the security authority to respect journalists’ right to free reporting and be aware not to harm the journalists and public while containing the protest.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Freedom of expression
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 27.689099672352167
Longitude: 84.40994169098822
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 4 October 2022, Bibek Pokhrel, media worker, was harassed by the police when reporting ongoing clashes at a hospital where relatives complained the poor care of a patient who passed away in Chitwan, Nepal.