SOUTH KOREA-JAPAN/JOURNALIST Japanese journalist in defamation trial arrives at Seoul court

Record ID: 149766

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA-JAPAN/JOURNALIST Japanese journalist in defamation trial arrives at Seoul court
  • Date: 1st June 2015
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (JUNE 1, 2015) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** CAR CARRYING FORMER SEOUL BUREAU CHIEF OF SANKEI SHIMBUN NEWSPAPER, TATSUYA KATO, ARRIVING IN FRONT OF SEOUL CENTRAL DISTRICT COURT / KATO AND HIS LAWYERS GETTING OFF CAR AND WALKING INTO COURT EXTERIOR OF SEOUL CENTRAL DISTRICT COURT SOUTH KOREAN NATIONAL FLAG AND COURT FLAG SIGN READING
  • Embargoed: 16th June 2015 13:00
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  • Story Text: Japanese journalist Tatsuya Kato, on trial for a charge of defaming South Korean President Park Geun-hye, arrived at a court in Seoul on Monday (June 1).
    Kato appeared at the Seoul Central District Court around 1:30 pm local time (0430 GMT) for the trial which began at 2:00 pm local time (0500 GMT).
    South Korean prosecutors in October indicted Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, after concluding a news article he wrote about Park on August 3 was based on "false information."
    The August 3 report in Sankei related to Park's whereabouts on April 16 last year, the day a ferry carrying 476 people capsized and sank. More than 300 people died in the country's worst maritime disaster in more than 40 years.
    Kato returned to Japan on April 14 after South Korea lifted the travel ban on him. Kato was not arrested but had been barred from leaving South Korea.
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