A participant flashes a three-fingered salute during a rally in Tokyo on Feb 14, 2021 - AP
YANGON (Reuters): Myanmar police detained a Japanese freelance journalist at a protest in the commercial capital of Yangon, a colleague said on Friday (Feb 26), in the first detention of a foreign reporter since the military coup on Feb 1.
Yuki Kitazumi, who runs a media production company and used to be a journalist for the Japanese business daily, the Nikkei, according to his Facebook page and interviews with online media, was arrested on Friday morning.
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