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Five journalists get ten-year jail terms in Burma for 'violating state secrets'
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2153.htm
Publisher: Reporters without Borders
Date Written: 11/07/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
In the latest in a series of reverses for media freedom in Burma, a court in the central region of Magway today sentenced five newspaper journalists to ten years in prison with hard labour on charges of violating state secrets.
Abstract: Harsh sentences seen as grave setback for press freedom in Burma
In the latest in a series of reverses for media freedom in Burma, a court in the central region of Magway today sentenced five newspaper journalists to ten years in prison with hard labour on charges of violating state secrets for reporting the existence of a chemical weapons factory.
After considerable progress since 2012, the harsh sentences confirmed that Burma has done a U-turn on freedom of information.
“This decisi...
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