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Myanmar military court gives DVB reporter 3 years in prison
BANGKOK (AP) A 51-year-old reporter for a now-banned online and broadcast news agency in Myanmar was sentenced Wednesday by a military court to three years in prison for his reporting, his employer said.
Min Nyo, a correspondent for the Democratic Voice of Burma is apparently the country’s first journalist since the army’s February takeover to be convicted under a recently revised provision in the Penal Code that critics charge criminalizes free speech.
It makes punishable by up to three years in prison any attempt to “hinder, disturb, damage the motivation, discipline, health and conduct” of soldiers and civil servants and cause their hatred, disobedience or disloyalty toward the military and the government.
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Teachers take part in a civil disobedience movement demonstration on Thursday against the military coup in Dooplaya district in Myanmar’s Karen state. Photograph: KNU Dooplaya District/AFP via Getty
A journalist who reported on protests against this year’s coup in Myanmar has been jailed for three years for incitement, his news organisation said, among the first guilty verdicts against media workers under the ruling military junta.
Min Nyo, a Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) reporter from Myanmar’s Bago region, was arrested on March 3rd, a month after the military seized power, and was beaten by police and seriously injured, said DVB, adding he was denied visits by his family.
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