A Japanese journalist has been found not guilty of defaming South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye.
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Prosecutors a year ago indicted Tatsuya Kato of Japan’s conservative Sankei Shimbun newspaper over the article that listed rumors that Park was absent for seven hours during the disaster that killed more than 300 people, mostly teenagers. Kato’s piece allegedly referred to rumours that appeared on Korean media outlets, suggesting that President Park’s apparent absence was due to a secret meeting with a former male aide, with whom she was allegedly romantically involved.
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Former Seoul bureau chief of Japan’s Sankei Shimbun newspaper, Tatsuya Kato (centre), arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 17, 2015.
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It added the freedom of the press “must be respected to the full” for the development of democracy, although the rumours over Park’s whereabouts turned out to be false.
Prosecutors had sought an 18-month prison term.
But some Japanese government officials were already raising concerns that Kato’s acquittal could prompt South Korean government officials to step up their calls for further concessions from the Japanese side on the comfort women issue.
South Korean policy-makers said on Thursday the US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates is unlikely to cause a significant blow to the country’s markets, but maintained firm action would be taken if needed.
Despite the acquittal, South Korea’s criminal defamation law should be repealed because it “stifles a free press, has a chilling effect on freedom of expression and works against the public interest by gagging critics and whistle blowers”, Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
Park’s office has said she wasn’t with the man in question, a former adviser.
News 1 reported Japan’s National Public Safety Chairman Taro Kono said Friday he would strengthen security around South Korean diplomatic missions in Japan in the aftermath of the incident.
The Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday that it conveyed the Japanese government’s repeated request for clemency in Kato’s case to Korea’s Justice Ministry. Ms Park’s government has faced a huge public backlash for its handling of the rescue operation.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed the verdict.
“I would like to hope that it will have a positive impact on relations between Japan and South Korea”, the country’s Kyodo news agency quoted him as saying.
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