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Journalists in Nepal are generally free to report without government interference--unless they choose to cover the country's four-year-old Maoist insurgency, the most serious crisis facing the state. In the government's zeal to put down the guerrilla movement, authorities have targeted journalists who report on rebel activities, or who work for publications seen as sympathetic to…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260