Word: nepali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wishes of her conservative Hindu family, she became a scholar and university lecturer, but was blacklisted by the government for her political activities and eventually expelled from the university where she taught. She then turned to journalism to advance her beliefs, ultimately publishing a newspaper jointly with two other Nepali political activists...
...civil and legal rights that were hers by law. During her incarceration, she was forced to witness the horrific abuse of other, less respected women prisoners--particularly the mentally ill, who were treated worst of all--while herself enduring the unimaginable squalor and near-starvation conditions of jail, the Nepali government's "last priority...