Guest Blog: Press struggles against repressive government in Nepal
(World News Austria)

A democratically elected government led by the Communist Party of Nepal is doing its best to shackle the press through repressive laws. Nepali media outlets and journalists have thwarted the government`s several ill-intended moves so far, but they know the joy may not last longer. Nepal has undergone major political changes in a short span of time. It resolved the decade-long Maoist insurgency in 2006; it moved from a monarchy to a republic, and from a unitary state to a federal state with the promulgation of its new constitution in 2015. Though the ruling Communist Party of Nepal was one of the major stakeholders in drafting the...