Nine of Burma's detained student leaders, popularly known as the 88 generation students, have been sentenced to six months of imprisonment today, on charges that they had defied court orders.
The detained students - Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, Hla Myo Naung, Htay Kywe, Mya Aye, Nyan Linn, Phyone Cho, Aung Thu and Aung Naing – were sentenced on charges made by the prosecutor that they had defied court orders.
The student leaders, known after the year in which they had led pro-democracy protests in 1988, were also charged under various other counts.
