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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Burmese blogger jailed for 20 years

Nay Phone Latt, a 28-year-old Burmese blogger, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon of the military leader Than Shwe. His trial was held in a court inside Rangoon's Insein prison. A colleague was sentenced to two years, and another dissident, Saw Wai, also got two years for publishing a poem mocking Than Shwe in the weekly Love Journal. (Sources: AFP/Google/BBC)

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