BREAKING: Lawyer says a Myanmar court has sentenced U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison on three charges.
Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was also found guilty of contacting illegal organizations and violating visa regulations, lawyer Than Zaw Aung said.
Fenster was detained at Yangon International Airport on May 24 as he was about to board a flight to go to the Detroit area in the United States to see his family. The military-installed government has cracked down hard on press freedom, shutting virtually all critical outlets and arresting about 100 journalists, roughly 30 of whom remain in jail. Some of the closed outlets have continued operating without a license, publishing online as their staff members dodge arrest.
Fenster’s next challenge is the two additional charges that his lawyer said Monday had been filed in a different court in Yangon.
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