San Jose Escorts: Politician threatens journalists; another journalist assaulted
… Freedom Forum/IFEX) – A member of Nepali Congress, the second-largest political party in Nepal, has threatened to kill several journalists. The threats were made during the party’s district convention on 29 August 2010.
Mohan Basnet, who is the district coordinator for the party in Sindhupalchok, a district in central Nepal, accused the journalists of not favoring him during the Nepali Congress district convention. According to Dhurba Dangal, a reporter for “Nagarik Daily”, Basnet threatened the journalists over the phone, using insulting language and threatening to take their lives.
In a separate incident, on 30 August a group of miscreants insulted and assaulted Bhim Rasaili, the publisher and editor of “Himalpari Weekly” in Mustang, a remote district located in the western part of the country.
The criminals smeared soot on Rasaili’s face and paraded him around the district headquarters of Jomsom in retaliation for an article on prostitution that he published in a recent edition of the newspaper.
See the full article from “IFEX”