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Two years after Nepal murder, no progress, mission finds

By Elisabeth Witchel/CPJ Consultant
Members of the International Media Mission to Nepal with Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, center. (Federation of Nepalese Journalists)

On the evening of March 1, 2010, Arun Singhaniya, owner of Janakpur Today newspaper and Janakpur Today Radio, stepped out of a prayer service during a holy celebration in Janakpur, Nepal's second largest city. A gunman on a motorcycle shot and killed the news proprietor, making him the second person affiliated with the Janakpur Today news group to be murdered within a year.

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March 1, 2012 2:31 PM ET |
Tags: Arun Singhaniya, Baburam Bhattarai, Impunity, Janakpur Today, Killed, Uma Singh
Alerts | Nepal

Two sentenced in Nepal journalist's murder

A man holds a photo of Singh. (Reuters)
New York, June 14, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed today the conviction of two suspects in the 2009 murder of journalist Uma Singh, but called for a continued investigation into the remaining suspects in the attack. 

A court in Dhanusa district sentenced Lalita Singh and Nemlal Paswan to life imprisonment for their involvement in the brutal killing, according to local news reports. A group stabbed the Janakpur Today and Radio Janakpur correspondent to death in her home in Dhanusa, in the southeast near the border with India, in reprisal for her reporting on land grabs, according to CPJ research. News reports at the time said as many as 15 people carried out the fatal assault.
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June 14, 2011 4:51 PM ET |
Tags: Birendra Shah, Federation of Nepali Journalists, Impunity Index, Janakpur Today, The Kathmandu Post, Uma Singh

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