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Recent Incidents

Reporting obstructed 

| May 30, 2023

Reporter at Galaxy 4K television Ghanashyam Poudel and cameraperson Rukmangat Bhattarai were manhandled while reporting in Arghakhanchi on May 28. Arghakhanchi lies in Lumbini Province of Nepal.&nb...

Police persons manhandled reporters

| May 25, 2023

Photojournalist at https://deshsanchar.com Barsha Shah was misbehaved while reporting in Kathmandu on May 23.

According to reporter Shah, she along w...

Police persons obstruct news reporting

| May 24, 2023

Police persons misbehaved with reporter to Kantipur Television Sushila Pathak today (May 24) in Biratnagar. Biratnagar lies in Koshi Province of Nepal.

Reporter Pathak shared with Fr...


Press Release

Press Council continues suppressing media freedom in Nepal 

| May 08, 2023

Freedom Forum is alarmed over Press Council Nepal's order to block an online news portal www.nationaldainik.com for its critical content. The council has requested Nepal Telecommunications Auth...

FF urges PCN not go out of jurisdiction while regulating media

| April 07, 2023

Press Council Nepal, a media regulatory body, has written a letter to the Nepal Telecommunicaitons Authority to shutdown 15 online news portals on April 5.

According to the letter, t...

Nepal Govt classifies policy level information as 'confidential' and secret, causing serious impact on transparency and denting RTI movement

| January 29, 2023

Freedom Forum is alarmed over the decision of the a Committee for classifiation of information under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary of the Government of Nepal.

The Government Com...

Journalists Affected

Nepal Press Freedom lists journalists as victims of Violations

  • 459
    Threatened
  • 8
    Murdered
  • 511
    Obstructed
  • 121
    Arrested
  • 2
    Disappearance
  • 626
    Attacked
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How was Press Freedom envisioned?

Nepali media faced unprecedented attack after the Royal Coup of 2005. The hard earned press freedom guaranteed by the constitution of 1990 was endangered. Entire media fraternity, FoE activists, right defenders and civil society were alarmed over the terror spread by Royal move. It was both the opportunity and challenge that the concept of protecting press freedom in an institutionalized manner was begun, resulting in launching of this website www.nepalpressfreedom.org.

Taranath Dahal, Executive Chief , Freedom Forum

What people say?

As a university teacher of Journalism and Mass communications. I frequently recommend my students to visit this website so that they could understand Nepali media landscape, press freedom and FoE issues thoroughly. The reports Freedom Forum produces are often presented as references on FoE and press freedom.

Trishna Acharya, Coordinator and Lecturer, Journalism and Mass Communications, Divyabhumi Multiple College

Why www.nepalpressfreedom.org ?

In view of the hostile atmosphere for the exercise of civil and political rights specially after 2005/2006, the emergence of Freedom Forum and its FoE violation monitoring outlet- www.nepalpressfreedom.org bears significant importance in Nepal. The relentless watch over government policies and laws, monitoring of press freedom violation and advocacy to end impunity for crime against journalists must be continued in Nepal. It is the very need this website has addressed.

Harihar Birahi, Ex- Chair, Press Council Nepal and Ex- Chair, Federation of Nepali Journalists

Event News

WORKSHOP ON JOURNALISM POLICY AND LAWS CONCLUDED

 AUGUST 13, 2008  Biratnagar- Media persons, legal practitioners,...

WORKSHOP ON JOURNALISM POLICY AND LAWS CONCLUDED

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  • Posted On: 2019-09-06 09:13:08

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THIRD REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON MEDIA LAWS AND POLICY

 AUGUST 13, 2008  Freedom Forum recently organized a regional leve...

THIRD REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON MEDIA LAWS AND POLICY

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MEDIA POLICY AND LAW REGIONAL WORKSHOP

 AUGUST 16, 2008  Participating speakers at a regional workshop or...

MEDIA POLICY AND LAW REGIONAL WORKSHOP

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WESTERN REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON MEDIA

 AUGUST 16, 2008  It has been felt that there are various shortcom...

WESTERN REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON MEDIA

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  • Posted On: 2019-09-05 10:45:07

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TWO-DAY WORKSHOP ON MEDIA POLICY AND LAWS

 AUGUST 25, 2008  Freedom Forum organized a two-day long workshop...

TWO-DAY WORKSHOP ON MEDIA POLICY AND LAWS

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  • Posted On: 2019-09-05 09:15:35

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