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Nepal Social Media Ban Gen-Z Protest News Live Updates: Nepal authorities on Tuesday imposed an indefinite curfew in its capital city Kathmandu, reintroducing restrictions just hours after an earlier order was lifted, news agency PTI reported. The Kathmandu District Administration Office issued the curfew orders effective from 8:30 am until further notice.
“No movement of people, any type of gathering, demonstration, protest, meeting and sit-in will be allowed during the curfew,” said the notice issued by the Chief District Officer of Kathmandu. “However, emergency services, including ambulances, fire engines, vehicles carrying health workers, tourists, media personnel, and air travellers will be permitted to operate in coordination with security personnel,” the notice stated.
The Nepal government Monday revoked the ban on social media platforms in the country that led to the death of at least 19 people and over 400 were injured as protests erupted in Kathmandu after youths – those under the age of 26, termed as Gen-Z – took to the streets in New Baneshwor, opposing the ban and government corruption. With unrest spilling fears across the border, Indian security forces placed the 1,751-km India-Nepal frontier on heightened alert, as reported by The Kathmandu Post.
What govt said about the ban: The government said social media users with fake IDs have been spreading hate speech and fake news, and committing fraud and other crimes via some platforms. In a nationwide protest against the move, thousands of youths, many in their school and college uniforms, marched towards the country’s parliament on Monday with national flags and placards with slogans such as “Shut down corruption and not social media”, “Unban social media”, and “Youths against corruption”, written on them. However, they were stopped by the police who erected a barbed wire barricade.
