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– Victory against impunity in Nepal as High Court upholds jail term for journalist's murderers (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News March 22, 2017

The Janakpur High Court has upheld a lower court's decision to sentence three people found guilty of killing journalist Uma Singh in 2009, to life imprisonment.
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