Nay Phone Latt’s sentence reduced
Posted on February 20, 2009
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Nay Phone Latt
Jailed Burmese blogger, Nay Phone Latt has had his sentence reduced from 20 years and six months to 12 years reports The Irrawaddy.
They quote his lawyer as saying she learnt today that after a two-month appeal, two of the prison terms imposed by a special court inside the notorious Insein Prison had been reduced.
Nay Phone Latt ran a blog that was often critical of the military junta. He was sentenced on three separate charges. An appeals court cut one 15-year sentence to seven years and a second sentence of three and a half years to three years. A third sentence of two years was left untouched.
He was transferred to a remote prison in Karen State a few months ago (see: Nay Phone Latt transferred to remote prison)
Nay Phone Latt’s sentences were part of several severe sentences that have been handed down to critics of the junta in recent months.
But, yesterday comedian Zarganar had his sentence cut by more than half to 24 years. He had been sentenced to 59 years (see: Zarganar given additional 14 years).
The reductions follow the recent visit by the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana
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