Myanmar hands comedian 45-year prison term for criticizing relief response
Saturday, November 22, 2008
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's courts continued a crackdown on activists Friday, handing out a 45-year prison sentence to a comedian who went to the delta to help cyclone victims and criticized the junta's slow relief response.
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