Japan urged to stop restricting its journalists’ foreign travel

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Japanese authorities to immediately return Japanese freelance reporter Kosuke Tsuneoka’s passport and to allow Tsuneoka and all other Japanese journalists to travel freely abroad, including to war-torn countries.On 2 February, immigration officials at Tokyo’s Haneda airport prevented Tsuneoka, 49, from boarding a flight to Yemen, via Sudan, to do a report about the dangers of famine after more than four ye

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