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Myanmar charges Japanese journalist with encouraging dissent: Junta
YANGON: A Japanese journalist detained in Myanmar has been charged with breaching immigration law and encouraging dissent against the military, the junta said Thursday.Toru Kubota, who was held while covering a protest in Yangon last week “has been charged under section 505 (a) and under immigration law 13-1”, the junta said in a statement.505a -- a law that criminalises encouraging dissent against the military and carries a maximum three-year jail term -- has been widely used by the military in its crackdown on dissent.Breaching immigration law 13-1 carries a maximum of two years' imprisonment.Film-maker Kubota, 26, was detained last Saturday near an anti-government rally in Yangon along wi

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