Burma - Journalist gets three-month jail sentence for her reporting

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the three-month jail sentence that Ma Khine, a woman reporter with the Eleven Media Group, received last week from a court in Loikaw, 500 km north of Rangoon. Ma Khine was convicted of defaming a lawyer, trespassing on the lawyer's property while interviewing her, and “using abusive language.” Reporters Without Borders expresses its full support for Ma Khine and all the other employees of Eleven Media. “This sentence was passed two weeks after Eleven (...)

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