{"id":19986,"date":"2025-09-09T02:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:13:06","slug":"nepal-lifts-social-media-ban-after-19-killed-in-protests-report-protests-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=19986","title":{"rendered":"Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests: Report | Protests News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text\">BREAKING<\/strong><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BREAKING, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Nepal\u2019s Communications and Information Technology Minister Prithvi Subba Gurung said the ban was \u2018withdrawn\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 9 Sep 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">9 Sep 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nepal has lifted a ban on social media platforms following mass protests and the killing of 19 people in clashes with security forces, a government minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Communication and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung said early on Tuesday that the government had rolled back the social media ban imposed last week.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have withdrawn the shutdown of the social media. They are working now,\u201d Gurung told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>At least 19 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in clashes with Nepalese security forces after thousands of young people took to the streets on Monday to protest against corruption and the government\u2019s ban on social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The government had blocked 26 social media sites, including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story. More to follow soon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKINGBREAKING, Nepal\u2019s Communications and Information Technology Minister Prithvi Subba Gurung said the ban was \u2018withdrawn\u2019. Published On 9 Sep 20259 Sep 2025 Nepal has lifted a ban on social media platforms following mass protests and the killing of 19 people in clashes with security forces, a government minister said. Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Communication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[163,632,5539,205,12197,150,494,293,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-19986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-ban","9":"tag-killed","10":"tag-lifts","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-nepal","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-protests","15":"tag-report","16":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}