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Nepalese Reporters Protesting Violence Against Them
By KTM Metro Reporter
Wearing black ribbons around their arms starting on June 12, 2011, Nepalese reporters have been staging a protest against the violence inflicted on them. They will continue the phase-wise protest if the government does not bring the culprits to justice and provide reporters with security.
Nepalese reporters have been subjected to violence throughout Nepal because of their reporting. Recently, the Youth Force cadres affiliated to the CPN-UML has made an assault on reporter Khilnath Dhakal. Prime minister Jhalanath Khanal and Deputy Prime Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara holding the portfolio of home have not done anything to bring the culprits to justice disregarding the repeated requests made by the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ).
FNJ has blamed the politicians and the government for giving protection to the criminals that have been threatening to take the lives of reporters and some of them had already taken the lives of some media people and reporters but the government has failed in bringing those culprits to justice on one pretext or another so far.
