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US journalist Danny Fenster gets 11 years jail in Myanmar

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 Digital Desk Digital Desk

BBC 12 NOV 2021- A Myanmar military court has sentenced US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in jail. Fenster was found guilty of breaching immigration law, unlawful association and encouraging dissent against the military. He was earlier this week slapped with two additional charges of sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. A verdict on... Read More

Myanmar gets new UN envoy from Singapore

October 26, 2021October 26, 2021 Digital Khabar

UNITED NATIONS, United States, Oct. 26 (AFP) : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Monday that he had named Singaporean sociologist Noeleen Heyzer as the new special envoy to Myanmar. She will replace Christine Schraner Burgener of Switzerland. Heyzer, 73, has held multiple senior positions at the United Nations, in particular between 2007 and 2014 as the head of an... Read More

Myanmar junta re-arrests more than 100 released in amnesty: monitoring group

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Digital Khabar

BANGKOK, Oct 22, (AFP): Myanmar’s junta has re-arrested more than 100 anti-coup protesters freed in a recent amnesty, according to a local monitoring group that tracks detentions and killings in the country. he Southeast Asian nation has been in chaos since the February coup, with more than 1,100 killed in a crackdown on dissent and over 8,000 arrested, according to... Read More