American journalist in prison for spread disinformation in Burma

American journalist Danny Fenster was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a Myanmar court on charges that include shedding false information – months after being arrested while trying to leave the country.

Fenster’s attorney revealed on Friday in Myanmar that his client – an American who works as editor in chief of Myanmar border – had been found guilty by a court on charges of spreading false information, illegal association and violation of immigration law. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.



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Fenster still faces several other allegations, including sedition and terrorism, that could bring him down in jail for even longer. The reporter is currently detained in Insein Prison.

A few months after the coup in Myanmar in February 2021, Fenster was arrested by authorities at Yangon International Airport as he tried to leave the country to visit his family in Detroit, Michigan.

Frontier Myanmar condemned the sentence in a declaration on Friday, arguing that the court “Ignored a significant amount of trial of his employment at Frontier. “

“The allegations were based on the accusation that he was working for Burma now in the aftermath of the coup of February 1 “ Frontier Myanmar explained, however stating that Fenster had “He resigned from Myanmar Now in July 2020 and joined Frontier the following month, then from his arrest in May 2021 had worked with Border for Nine months.”

Frontier Myanmar called Fenster’s ruling “The hardest possible under the law. “

Myanmar Now, an independent news agency that was critical of the country military, was one of five news points of sale a lose its license in following the previous coup year.

In his statement, Thomas Kean – the editor-in-boss of Frontier Myanmar – said his magazine was “Disappointed and frustrated” at court decision sentence Fenster to 11 years in prison, and argued “There is absolutely no basis for condemning Danny of these accusations “.

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