Yuichi Sugimoto Speaks at the FCCJ

Yuichi Sugimoto Speaks at the FCCJ
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Tokyo, Japan – Freelance Photojournalist Yuichi Sugimoto shows the official notification from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan which denied his legal right to get his passport during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, February 12, 2015. Sugimoto will take legal action against the Japanese Government after they confiscated his passport to prevent him from traveling to Syria to report on the civil war there. After the murder of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa by ISIS, the Japanese Government does not want to allow Japanese citizens traveling to the area for safety reasons. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)

Yuichi Sugimoto Speaks at the FCCJ
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Tokyo, Japan – Freelance Photojournalist Yuichi Sugimoto answers questions from the press at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, February 12, 2015. Sugimoto told Kyodo News that he had planned to travel to Syria and report from refuge camps far from the territory held by ISIS. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)