Media advocacy groups are appalled by the 20-year jail sentence imposed on Hla Hla Win, a freelance video reporter working with Democratic Voice of Burma, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy.
“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 25-year-old video maker and the junta chief’s recent threatening comments leave little hope that the elections will be free,” said a joint statement from Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association.
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