Burma sentences blogger to 20 years


	Burma sentences blogger to 20 years

spirithiker

11-15-2008 9:31 AM

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repression, free speech, burma, blogging

spirithiker says:

Nay Phone Latt was sentenced for using the internet.

There is an urgent need now for bloggers all over the world to demonstrate their solidarity with Nay Phone Latt by posting his photo on their blog and by writing to Burmese embassies worldwide to request his release.

This website has a picture of Nay Phone Latt http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-nay-phone-latt-sentenced-to-twenty-years-and-six-months/

Type his name into a search engine to learn more about his case.

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