22nd July 2015
RANGOON — A Rangoon court on Wednesday found prominent 88 Generation student leader Ko Ko Gyi and four other activists guilty of
breaching Burma’s Peaceful Assembly Law, sentencing them each to 21 days in prison or a fine of 10,000 kyats (US$8.30).
Speaking outside the South Okkalar Township courthouse following the verdict, Ko Ko Gyi told reporters that he would opt to serve
the prison term, but an unknown benefactor stepped in to pay the financial penalty, apparently intent on seeing the activist’s
political ambitions realized.
ref: irrawaddy.org
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