Myanmar charges Japanese journalist over alleged fake news

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A Japanese journalist arrested in Myanmar has been charged with spreading fake news, the country’s Japanese embassy has said.

Yuki Kitazumi is the first foreign journalist known to be charged since the coup. He now faces three years in prison according to Japanese media.

He was arrested in April and has been in prison since.

More than 700 people have been killed and thousands detained since Myanmar’s military staged a coup in February.

Mr Kitazumi who was

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