I watched my village disappear in an instant

In the devastating floods that severed an entire district from the rest of Nepal, one The Kathmandu Post journalist witnessed his childhood village disappear — through fragments of video, and phone calls that stopped connecting.

Until death: Inside Nepal’s harshest punishment

Nepal has no death penalty. Instead, it has life imprisonment until death — a sentence with no release date.An investigation by Kantipur shows who receives this sentence, how it is applied, and what justice means for victims, prisoners, and the state.

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