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The CPJ condemns Toru Kubota's harsh prison sentence In Myanmar
Authorities arrested Kubota on July 30 while he filmed a small protest in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon.
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Toru Kubota, a Japanese journalist who covered the Myanmar protests, faces prison
Myanmar was the world’s second worst jailer of journalists, trailing only China.