Man held for alleged defamation over obscene video of female athlete

Kyodo -- Jun 22

In a law-enforcement first, a 57-year-old man was arrested Monday on suspicion of damaging the reputation of a female athlete by posting a video he secretly took of her in a sexualized context on a porn site, police said.

It is the first time Japanese police have applied the charge of defamation to the sharing online of sexualized photos and videos taken of athletes non-consensually -- a phenomenon that has become a growing social problem.

Jun 22 (日テレNEWS) - 女性アスリートを盗撮した動画をアダルトサイトで販売し、女性の名誉を毀損したとして、石上浩志容疑者(57)が逮捕されました。