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Newspaper editor in Nepal charged with treason

The editor and publishers of Nepal's largest daily newspaper have been charged with treason, following last Friday's Royal Family massacre.

South Asia correspondent Jonathon Harley reports.

Yuvraj Gimre, editor of the Kantipur daily has ben detained along with the paper's managing director and publisher. It had run an opinion article by an underground Maoist rebel leader calling on the army to stop protecting the monarchy and proclaiming Nepal's new king Gyanendra would not be popularaly accepted as monarch. The arrests come after government warnings not to publish sensitive material during Nepal's time of crisis. Meanwhile the capital spent its third night under curfew imposed till three in the morning.

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