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Nepal: Suspect detained in Nepal four years after journalist's murder | Mike Hitchen Online: i On Global Trends

19.9.13

Nepal: Suspect detained in Nepal four years after journalist's murder | Mike Hitchen Online: i On Global Trends: Four years after the incident, on September 16, 2013, the Police arrested Umesh Yadav, a suspect in the murder of Uma Singh. Singh was a Janakpur-based journalist, from Dhangadhi, the headquarters of Kailali, a district in the far western region of Nepal.

A Nepal Police team in Kailali detected the whereabouts of murder suspect Yadav and detained him at the Dhangadhi bazaar.

Singh, a reporter with local FM radio station Janakpur Today, was hacked to death on 11 January 2009 in Janakpur, a city on the southern plain of eastern Nepal. She mainly reported on issues linked to women's rights and was vocal against the dowry system rife in the southern plain (Tarai) of the country.


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