YANGON, Myanmar – A military-ruled court in Myanmar jailed a photojournalist for 20 years, the longest-known prison term for a media professional since the 2021 coup.
The Myanmar Now news agency said the sentence was handed down Wednesday the first day of Sai Zaw Thaike’s trial inside Yangon’s Insein prison.
Myanmar plunged into turmoil in February 2021 when the military seized power in a coup and removed