A Burmese journalist was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in jail with laborious labor for violating Myanmar’s counterterrorism legislation, along with a three-year sentence she acquired in December 2022 for defamation, an legal professional engaged on her case stated.
Digicam operator Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun of Myanmar Press Photograph Company, was sentenced in Insein Jail on the outskirts of Yangon by the ruling junta’s Thingangyun District Courtroom, stated the lawyer who requested anonymity for security causes.
She was sentenced to a few years in jail underneath Part 505(a) of the nation’s Penal Code after being held in jail for a yr. The junta has charged journalists underneath the broad and imprecise anti-state provision that penalizes “incitement” and “false information,” and carries penalties of two or three years in jail.
Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun’s legal professional stated his shopper wouldn’t enchantment the decision.
“She stated she didn’t wish to enchantment,” he informed Radio Free Asia. “She has no extra indictments to face.”
The navy regime has clamped down laborious on press freedom in Myanmar since seizing energy from the democratically elected authorities in a February 2021 coup. Junta troopers proceed to focus on, harass, jail and kill journalists. Human rights teams have known as on the junta to unconditionally free all journalists focused within the post-coup crackdown.
Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun's accidents resulted from navy troops who rammed a car right into a crowd of civilians peacefully protesting in opposition to the regime in Yangon’s Kyimyindaing township on Dec. 5, 2021. They arrested the digital camera operator alongside along with her colleague, photographer Kaung Sett Lin, each of whom have been protecting the protest, in addition to 9 younger activists.
The navy car hit the 2 journalists at excessive pace from behind, inflicting critical accidents to their heads, legs and different areas of their our bodies, the net journal The Irrawaddy reported.
Tun, whose legs have been damaged, nonetheless has issue strolling and can’t transfer like a traditional particular person, her legal professional stated.
For the reason that coup, the navy junta has arrested 156 journalists. Greater than 100 of them have been launched, whereas greater than 50 stay in jail, and one — photojournalist Soe Naing — was killed throughout interrogation.
Translated by Myo Min Aung for RFA Burmese. Edited by Roseanne Gerin and Matt Reed.
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