Japanese journalist cleared of defaming South Korea president

  17 December 2015    Read: 633
Japanese journalist cleared of defaming South Korea president
A South Korean court found a Japanese journalist not guilty on Thursday of defaming President Park Geun-hye.
A South Korean court found a Japanese journalist not guilty on Thursday of defaming President Park Geun-hye in a case that has inflamed the two countries` diplomatic ties and intensified questions about freedom of the press in South Korea.Tatsuya Kato, former bureau chief of Japan`s Sankei Shimbun newspaper, was indicted last year for writing an article about Park that the prosecution said was based on "false information."

The article discussed Park`s personal life and her whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry disaster in April 2014.

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