{"id":272194,"date":"2025-10-08T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/federation-of-nepali-journalists-fnj-kathmandu-chapter-condemns-death-threat-against-journalist-parbat-raj-ghimire-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:51:47","slug":"federation-of-nepali-journalists-fnj-kathmandu-chapter-condemns-death-threat-against-journalist-parbat-raj-ghimire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/federation-of-nepali-journalists-fnj-kathmandu-chapter-condemns-death-threat-against-journalist-parbat-raj-ghimire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) Kathmandu chapter condemns death threat against journalist Parbat Raj Ghimire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div dir=\"auto\">. KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu chapter of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has strongly condemned the death threat to its member journalist Parbat Raj Ghimire. Subash Shah, the brother-in-law of Mayor Shah, threatened to kill journalist Ghimire over the phone. After the incident became public, the branch has taken it as a direct attack on press freedom. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ramesh Kumar Bohora, secretary of the section, said in a statement on Wednesday, &#8220;This is not a personal grudge but a deliberate attack on the right to free press and expression which challenges democratic values and the basic spirit of press freedom.&#8221;TAG_OPEN_div_17 \u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The press release states that the Press Council Nepal has a legal provision to file a complaint against the news and it is a direct violation of the Press Code of Conduct and the prevailing laws.TAG_OPEN_div_15 <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>TAG_OPEN_div_13 The chapter has strongly urged the government to immediately investigate the incident, take stern action against the culprits and adopt zero tolerance towards threats and attacks on journalists. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ramesh Kumar Bohara, secretary of the section, said, &#8220;Free press and fearless journalism are the backbone of democracy.TAG_OPEN_div_11 Ensuring the safety of journalists is the primary responsibility of the state. \u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-272190\" src=\"https:\/\/media.insurancekhabar.com\/uploads\/2025\/10\/unnamed-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1978\" height=\"2560\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu chapter of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has strongly condemned the death threat to its member journalist Parbat Raj Ghimire. Subash Shah, the brother-in-law of Mayor Shah, threatened to kill journalist Ghimire over the phone. After the incident became public, the branch has taken it as a direct attack on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":268367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/268367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}