22nd July 2015
Two editors from the Myanmar Herald news publication were found guilty of defamation and fined by a court in Naypyidaw on Tuesday.
At their 20th hearing in the trial, the journal’s chief editor Kyaw Swar Win and former deputy-chief editor Ant Khaung Min were
sentenced by the Pobbathiri township court to each pay a fine of one million kyat (US$833) or serve six months in prison.
....The charges relate to an interview with political theorist Myo Yan Naung Thein, published in August last year, who criticised
President Thein Sein of “spouting gibberish, irrational, cheap and inconsistent words” that were “completely nonsensical, absurd and
insane”.
Ref.dvb.no
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