Burma: Journalist must spend ten more years in prison
In Burma, authorities have sentenced a journalist who had already been sentenced to eight years in prison to an additional ten years in prison.
This was announced by the human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The 21-year-old journalist worked for the Norway-based organization Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), which broadcasts anti-government television and radio programmes from Oslo. The young man had already been sentenced to eight years in prison last year. He had been caught recording the aftermath of a grenade attack in the metropolis of Rangoon. According to RSF, a further court ruling followed on Wednesday because the journalist is said to have disseminated material on the internet that "damaged the peace and unity in the government". (SDA)
