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    Officer who testified Reuters reporters were framed is sentenced to prison
    April 30, 2018in Law, Lead Story, Media, News329by REUTERS
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    Officer who testified Reuters reporters were framed is sentenced to prison

    A police officer who testified that police framed two Reuters reporters has been sentenced to an undisclosed prison term for violating Burma’s Police Disciplinary Act, a police spokesman told Reuters…

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    Over 150 CSOs demand release of former child soldier Aung Ko Htwe
    April 2, 2018in Law, Lead Story, News554by DVB
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    Over 150 CSOs demand release of former child soldier Aung Ko Htwe

    More than 150 civil society organisations have released a statement condemning Burma’s judiciary for handing down a two-year prison sentence to former child soldier Aung Ko Htwe.

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    Ex-child soldier gets two years in prison for telling of forced conscription
    March 28, 2018in Law, Lead Story, News53by YE MON
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    Ex-child soldier gets two years in prison for telling of forced conscription

    A Yangon court on Wednesday sentenced the former child soldier Aung Ko Htwe to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour under section 505(b) of Burma’s Penal Code, a provision broadly…

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    Lawyer for Aye Maung says three charges for ‘one act’ is excessive
    March 20, 2018in Law, Lead Story, News609by DVB
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    Lawyer for Aye Maung says three charges for ‘one act’ is excessive

    The defence lawyer for politician Aye Maung has alleged prosecutorial malpractice in a case being brought against his client, in which the defendant is facing three separate charges after a…

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    Plaintiff in Aye Maung trial says order to file charges came from above: lawyer
    March 16, 2018in Law, Lead Story, News265by DVB
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    Plaintiff in Aye Maung trial says order to file charges came from above: lawyer

    A lawyer for embattled Rakhine politician Aye Maung has said the plaintiff claims he filed the incitement and high treason charges at the instruction of his superiors.

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    Final arguments due in incitement case against former child soldier
    March 13, 2018in Law, Lead Story, News226by YE MON
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    Final arguments due in incitement case against former child soldier

    The long-running trial of a former child soldier charged with public incitement looks to be nearing an end as a judge in Yangon said at a hearing on Tuesday that…

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