Myanmar sentences 9 more activists to prison

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Source: Associated Press

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced an additional nine pro-democracy activists to 65-year prison terms, relatives and activists said Saturday.

Their cases are among a string of recent prison sentences given to critics of the ruling junta. About 70 opposition activists, writers, musicians and Buddhist monks have been sentenced in the last week.

The nine activists of the 88 Generation Students group, named for their part in pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988, were sentenced at a closed trial inside Maupin Prison in the Irrawaddy Delta in southwestern Yangon last Tuesday.

Relatives of the nine only learned of the sentences Saturday when they visited them at Insein Prison, where they were brought from Maupin Prison to later be transferred to other prisons ...

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[Winnipegosis]

1. Burma

How anyone has the conscience to visit this country, essentially donating money to this reprehensible government is beyond me.