Burmese Journalist Given Additional 10-year Sentence

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By: Committee to Protect Journalists

Bangkok, September 15, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the 10-year jail sentence handed down to Burmese journalist Sithu Zeya, a photographer with the Norway-based, exile-run Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), and calls on the government to reverse the ruling and stop its retaliation against exile-affiliated journalists.

The 21-year-old reporter was first arrested for photographing the aftermath of an April 2010 bomb blast in the old capital of Rangoon and was sentenced to eight years in prison under the Unlawful Association and Immigration acts. DVB and other Burmese exile media groups have reported that the journalist has been tortured and held in harsh solitary confinement in Rangoon's notorious Insein Prison.































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