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Prison
For ‘Inappropriate’ Reporting: Fukushima
27
November , 2012
By
Susan Duclos
Japan’s
more powerful lower house of Parliament passed a state secrecy law
which will allow the Japanese government to put journalists in prison
for any “inappropriate” reporting and according to ENENews, who
quotes from the AP, this secrecy “bill’s definition of secrets is
so vague and broad that it could easily be expanded to include
radiation data.”
As
most readers know, the Fukushima nuclear plant was crippled in 2011
after the great earthquake and tsunami and radiation leaks have
continued since along with hundreds of tons of radioactive water
being pumped into the Pacific daily. It is also known that the people
of Japan have already been gagged for the most part on social media,
from telling the world how bad the crisis is after the more recent
7.3 earthquake.
It
is also reported that the United States welcomes this new gagging of
information coming out of Japan.
Journalists
who obtain information “inappropriately” or “wrongfully” can
get up to five years in prison, prompting criticism that it would
make officials more secretive and intimidate the media. Attempted
leaks or inappropriate reporting, complicity or solicitation are also
considered illegal. [...] Japan’s proposed law also designates the
prime minister as a third-party overseer.
How
much worse is the Fukushima situation than what we already know?
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ReplyDeleteThank You for providing further confirmation that the average Japanese citizen has been banned from revealing the man on the street eyewitnessing of this catastrophe. I hope, if you learn anymore about that aspect, you will share on this most excellently informative site. Sadly? It's a topic I wish didn't exist, but I'd rather know about it than not.
ReplyDeleteAgain, Thank You.