| Email Says Kidnapped Journalist Thakuri is Killed
Even as the BBC journalist Alan Johnston is released in Gaza after 4 months of abduction, and a wide press vigilance, less known journalists continue to suffer similar horrors. In Nepal, freelance journalist Prakash Thakuri's whereabouts remain unknown. The pro-monarchist journalsit was kidnapped from his home in Kanchanpur on July 5. The Intl Herald Trib, citing AP, reports that officials received an e-mail Monday night claiming Thakuri had been killed. Read the CPJ report here.
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