Nepal has slipped
two places to 120th position in the World Press Freedom Index-2014 – compared
to the lats year – according to the Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday.
Nepal was
ranked at the 118th in 2013.
The report
stated that the Indian sub-continent is the Asian region with the biggest rise
in violence for journalists. "The most disturbing development is the
increasingly targeted nature of the violence," it said, adding that the
Maoist party activists were more aggressive towards journalists, who criticised
their leaders, especially in the run-up to constituent assembly elections in
November last year.
A record number of eight
journalists and one media worker were killed, in Nepal's immediate
neighborhood, in India last year. "Half of these deaths were premeditated reprisals," it said, adding that the
number was double in 2012 death toll and more than the death toll in Pakistan, long the world’s deadliest country for media personnel. "Criminal organisations, security forces, demonstrators and armed groups all pose a threat to India’s journalists. The violence and the resulting self-censorship are encouraged by the lack of effective investigations by local authorities, who are often quick to abandon them, and inaction on the part of the federal authorities."
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