{"id":436935,"date":"2026-09-29T21:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=436935"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:49:26","slug":"press-council-draws-attention-to-mistreatment-of-its-staffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/436935.html","title":{"rendered":"Press Council draws attention to mistreatment of its staffers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> The Chairperson and staffers of the Press Council Nepal have been subjected to mistreatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/press-council-nepal-780x470.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a press statement issued by the Council here Tuesday, the Chairperson was threatened and abused during a discussion with the leadership of the Federation of Nepali Journalists regarding public welfare advertisements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement signed by Council members Namrata Sharma, Rabiraj Baral, Upasana Ghimire, and Prakashbhakta Mathema notes that while a discussion regarding the demands of the &#8216;Task Force for Saving Print Media&#8217; was underway in the Chairperson&#8217;s office this afternoon, certain individuals representing the Federation and the Task Force behaved abusively toward Council staffers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Affirming its respect for the right to raise professional demands, the Council has called for respectful and responsible behavior during institutional dialogues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The Chairperson and staffers of the Press Council Nepal have been subjected to mistreatment. According to a press statement issued by the Council here Tuesday, the Chairperson was threatened and abused during a discussion with the leadership of the Federation of Nepali Journalists regarding public welfare advertisements. A statement signed by Council members Namrata &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":342985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-436935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436937,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436935\/revisions\/436937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436935"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=436935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}