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RSF deplores excessive jail term for Myanmar columnist

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Myanmar authorities to reconsider the seven-year sentence imposed on a columnist close to Myanmar’s former military government for posting comments on Facebook deemed to be hostile to the country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. It also called for the repeal of the archaic sedition law. Ngar Min Swe was found guilty of sedition on 18 July by a Yangon court for "writing abusive posts on Facebook against State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, making people get the wrong impressi


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