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Myanmar jails Japanese filmmaker for 10 years: diplomatic source
Myanmar jails Japanese filmmaker for 10 years: diplomatic source
by  AFP

Myanmar's junta has jailed a Japanese filmmaker for 10 years for encouraging dissent against the military and violating an electronic communications law, a diplomatic source told AFP on Thursday. The court sentenced Kubota to "seven years imprisonment" for breaching an electronic communications law, and three years for encouraging dissent, the source said.

The censor cannot hold: the pressure of controlling China's internet
The censor cannot hold: the pressure of controlling China's internet
by  AFP

As a teenager in rural China, Zeng Jiajun used his internet know-how to watch a banned documentary on the bloody military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. In amongst the forbidden fruit was "The Gate of Heavenly Peace", a three-hour documentary on student protests in Tiananmen Square in June 1989.

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