Burma: torture in the 'pizza jail'

Japanese journalist Yuki Kitazumi spent a month in Insein Prison, a prison built in Rangoon by the British in colonial times, notorious for a long history of torture.. Kitazumi was arrested in April while covering protests against the military coup in Myanmar. He was accused of spreading false news.

Pressure from Tokyo made the Burmese military junta, the coup government that took power on February 1, release the journalist on May 14.. To