The journalist fraternity has condemned the threat issued to Annapurna Post Sunsari correspondent Ratna Prasad Acharya by various Nepali Congress-aligned organisations over a news report.
Over 750 journalists have contracted Covid-19 till date, since the advent of the pandemic, while 13 have succumbed to the disease, according to the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ).
Killings, attacks and intimidation: Journalism under fire across borders
Illustration: Noor Us Safa Anik
For the first time, media organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in these South Asian countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.
By Nirmal Jovial
On the evening of August 8, 2020, ten women from Subhash Mohalla in North East Delhi proceeded to the Bhajanpura police station to make the police register a first information report on a complaint they had made two days before. The complaint was that some men had tried to foment communal tension in their locality. The complainants said the men had abused Muslims, tied saffron flags near a mosque and burst crackers in celebration of a ceremony for the construction of a temple at faraway Ayodhya on August 5.
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