Lebanese police detain filmmaker
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100504a8.html
May 4, 2010
BEIRUT (Kyodo) - Filmmaker Koji Wakamatsu and two cameramen were
briefly detained by police during a recent visit to Lebanon to attend
a film festival, apparently for entering a place where photography is
prohibited, sources said Sunday.
The three were shooting footage near a prison in suburban Beirut
around 11 a.m. last Thursday when they were asked by police to
produce their passports. They were taken inside the prison,
handcuffed and moved to a police station before being released after
about seven hours.
Wakamatsu, 74, was on a weeklong trip to Beirut after receiving an
invitation to the festival, which featured his movie on Japanese Red
Army activists who carried out high-profile hijackings and attacks in
the 1970s.
The prison in the late 1990s housed Kozo Okamoto, one of three Red
Army members who staged a 1972 machinegun and grenade attack at the
airport in Tel Aviv.
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