Additional jail terms given to imprisoned mine activists

20 September 2015
Additional jail terms given to imprisoned mine activists

A court in Myanmar on Friday imposed additional jail terms on two activists imprisoned for protesting the shooting death of an unarmed woman outside a Chinese-owned copper mine in the country’s Sagaing region in December, RFA reported on 18 September
The Kyauktada township court in Yangon handed Nay Myo Zin and Naw Ohn Hla four months each for holding an unauthorized demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy on 29 December against the police killing of villager Khin Win during a protest at the Letpadaung mine site a week earlier.
The pair were convicted under Article 18 of the Act on the Right to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession—one of four charges used by Yangon’s Dagon township court in May to sentence them and four other activists to four years and four months each for the December protest.