“Living like a widow”

Photo Essay by TAKAAKI YAGISAWA

When Radha Mainali went to see her husband last month in prison, he thought she had come to take him out. Still, Radha says his morale was high and he was confident he would be released soon. “I had been living like a widow these past 15 years, our daughters haven’t been able to grow up with their father. But for the first time there is hope,” Radha told Nepali Times last week in Kathmandu. “I am thankful to all our Japanese friends who have helped to prove that my husband is innocent and wrongly imprisoned.”