Home‘Free’ speech still comes at a price in Burma: HRWPoet Maung Saung Kha, 23, stands after a court sentenced him to six months in jail for defaming former president Thein Sein, making him one of the first political activists sentenced since Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi took power in Yangon

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