BANGKOK: A Japanese video journalist has been detained by security forces in Myanmar while covering a protest against military rule in the Southeast Asian country's largest city, pro-democracy activists said on Sunday.
Toru Kubota, a Tokyo-based documentary filmmaker, was arrested last Saturday by plainclothes policemen after a flash protest in the former capital Yangon, according to Typ Fone, a leader of the Yangon Democratic Youth Strike group, which organized the rally. Like many activists, he uses a pseudonym for protection against the junta authorities.
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