SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors indicted a Japanese journalist on Wednesday for defamation of President Park Geun-hye over an article he wrote about her personal life and whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry disaster in April.
The Seoul Central District Prosecution said it had indicted the former Seoul bureau chief for Japan's Sankei Shimbun, Tatsuya Kato, after concluding a report he wrote about Park on Aug. 3 was based on "false information," the prosecutors' office said in a statement.
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