Burma - Appalling 20-year jail sentence for Democratic Voice of Burma video reporter

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association are appalled by the 20-year jail sentence that a court has just imposed on Hla Hla Win, a freelance video reporter who provided material to the Burmese exile broadcaster Democratic Voice of Burma. Detained since September, she was already given a seven-year sentence in October.   “People had been expecting signs of an opening and goodwill gestures from the military junta in this election year, but this extremely severe sentence on a (...)

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