This July 29–30 analysis (Nepal) examines allegations by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists that Supreme Court justices in Nepal were pressured to resign and threatened with impeachment. The article argues that judicial independence depends not only on the absence of direct interference but also on judges feeling secure enough to rule without fear of political retaliation, and it notes that Nepal’s constitution automatically suspends a judge once an impeachment motion is registered, making the threat of impeachment a potent political tool. It situates the current controversy amid politically sensitive cases before the court and recalls the earlier failed impeachment attempt against former Chief Justice Sushila Karki as an example of impeachment being wielded as a political weapon rather than an accountability mechanism.

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