[KineJapan] Documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota receives 10 years in prison in Myanmar for filming protests

[Peter Larson]

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/10/1ed0fc668f02-japan-documentary-filmmaker-gets-multiyear-prison-sentence-in-myanmar.html

"Kubota was detained by authorities on July 30 while filming a protest
against the military, which seized power from the democratically elected
government in a February 2021 coup.

The military claims he entered the Southeast Asian country from neighboring
Thailand using a tourist visa, and that he was participating in the
demonstration and communicating with protesters while filming.

The military also alleges Kubota previously reported on the Rohingya Muslim
minority group and disseminated false information. The Rohingya have been
persecuted in the Buddhist-majority country, with hundreds of thousands of
them uprooted and forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh in recent years.

Kubota, who has been detained in Yangon's notorious Insein Prison for
political prisoners, was sentenced by a court set up inside it, according
to the source. The military spokesperson's office said he is still facing
trial for an immigration-related charge."
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