Japanese Farmer Faces 9 Years in Prison After Burning Down Illegally Built Mosque
Japanese prosecutors are seeking nine years in prison for a 37-year-old farmer who admitted setting fire to a mosque in Hokkaido – a building that had itself previously been declared illegally constructed by local authorities.
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