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Reuters reporters who exposed Myanmar military abuses are jailed for seven years
In a landmark case seen as a test of progress toward democracy in the Southeast Asian country, a Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state "secrets," sentencing them to seven years in prison. Yangon Northern District Judge ...
A year after it took effect, the serious flaws of the state secrets law remain unaddressed.
Amid Ukraine denials, Putin orders Russian peacetime troop deaths be kept secret
President Vladimir Putin ordered on Thursday that the deaths of Russian soldiers during special operations in peacetime should be classified as a state secret, a move that comes as Moscow stands accused of sending troops to fight in eastern Ukraine. Putin, who has repeatedly denied ...
State secrets law could constrain researchers
The spirit of Japan’s new state secrets law may officially be about protecting national security, but lawyers say it could affect a broad range of academic research as well.
Activist challenges secrets law with anonymous whistle-blower website
A Japanese Internet activist and academic is challenging the recently enacted state secrets law by setting up a website aimed at making it easier for government officials to leak sensitive information to the media without getting caught. The website, unveiled Friday, uses an open source ...
Overseas work, study seen as negative point for anyone handling state secrets
The Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office has warned government offices before the new state secrecy law takes effect Wednesday that people who have studied or worked abroad have a higher risk of leaking secrets.
Protesters against the contentious secrecy law enacted exactly a year ago vowed Saturday to continue fighting to have it scrapped, amid concern the legislation will undermine the public's right to know. With the law that toughens penalties for leakers of state secrets set to take ...
Vast majority of ruling bloc candidates favor rebooting reactors
Most of the ruling coalition candidates running in the general election are in favor of restarting the nation's idled nuclear reactors, a poll says.
Prosecutors to be tapped for secrecy panel, in hopes of mollifying law's opponents
The Abe administration plans to appoint public prosecutors to a review body for the state secrets law, which enters into force Dec. 10, government sources said. The law has drawn criticism from experts who fear it could lead to arbitrary classification of state secrets and ...
Musical points to sinister nuclear implications
A recent court-themed musical staged in Tokyo was, to say the least, an audacious dig at the contentious state secrets law scheduled to take effect in December. Set several years after the law's passage last December, the musical, performed last week in Nakano Ward by ...
Young protesters rap state secrets law as movement gains rhythm
"Don't give up the fight! Stand up for your right!" "This is what democracy looks like!" "Now it's our turn to decide what to do!" Anyone who happened to visit Tokyo's Shibuya district this past Saturday may have been dumbstruck at the sight of a very un-Japanese ...
More distrust, less harmony if law pits local patriarchs against Tokyo secrecy fetishists
With the state secrets law about to take effect, a fundamental question awaits: When is a “state” secret no longer merely national and starts to infringe upon “local” autonomy?
