Wrongly imprisoned Nepali

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali (L) holds his newly published autobiography in Kathmandu on May 22, 2013. The Nepali man was wrongly detained and imprisoned in Japan for 15 years. He was arrested on a charge of murdering a Japanese woman in 1997 and had his life imprisonment sentence finalized in 2003 before being cleared of the murder charge in a retrial in November 2012.

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