Скачать или смотреть Nepal lifts ban on social media platforms after protests where police killed 19 people

(9 Sep 2025)

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Kathmandu, Nepal - 9 September 2025
1. Wide of riot police guarding streets outside the parliament after curfew was ordered
2. Police asking people to return home and clear streets after curfew imposed
3. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Durganah Dahal, social worker:
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“We need to protest the killing of so many young ones and students aiming directly at their head by this Hitler-like K.P. Oli government. As long as this government in in power, the people like us will continue to suffer. They killed so many youths yesterday, who had so much to look forward to, now they can easily kills us all. We protest until this government is finished.”
4. Various of police, protesters,
5. Protesters chanting
6. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Bishnu Joshi, government worker:
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“We are very saddened by all this. We had never expected that it would get to this point. The massive protest rally on the streets clearly shows how frustrated and disappointed the young generation is. And for all this, I believe that this protest should continue.”
7. Various of police in riot gear guarding the streets
STORYLINE:
Nepal’s government lifted its ban on social media platforms Tuesday, a day after police opened fire on mass street protests against the ban, killing 19 people.

The district administration ordered an indefinite curfew in Kathmandu and schools were closed. A curfew was also imposed in other cities too.

Small protests erupted Tuesday violating the curfew orders. Police quickly tried to push back the protesters but appeared to be not using any force.

The protesters' anger was turning toward the government led by Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, who is increasingly becoming unpopular.

“As long as this government in in power, the people like us will continue to suffer,” said Durganah Dahal, a protester. “They killed so many youths yesterday who had so much to look forward to, now they can easily kill us all. We protest until this government is finished,” he added.

Several widely used social networks, including Facebook, X and YouTube were blocked in the Himalayan nation last week after failing to comply with a new requirement to register and submit to government oversight.

Monday's rallies against the ban swelled to tens of thousands of people in Kathmandu and crowds surrounded the Parliament building before police opened fire on the demonstrators.

Seven of those killed and scores of the wounded were received at the National Trauma Center, Nepal’s main hospital.

Nepal in 2023 banned TikTok for disrupting “social harmony, goodwill and diffusing indecent materials.” The ban was lifted last year after TikTok’s executives pledged to comply with local laws, including a ban of pornographic sites that was passed in 2018.

AP Video shot by Upendra Man Singh

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