Japanese filmmaker and journalist Toru Kubota received an additional three years in jail for violating Burma’s Immigration Law, Reuters reported. Kubota, 26, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for violating sedition and communications laws at an Insein Prison court last week. Kubota was arrested at an anti-coup protest in Yangon in July.
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