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The United Nations on Friday condemned the sentencing of American journalist Danny Fenster in Myanmar and urged the authorities to release all journalists who were jailed for practising their profession after the February military coup. Danny Fenster, 37, is the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar magazine. He has been sentenced to 11 years in jail by a military court in Yangon city for violating visa regulations, association with an illegal group and dissent against the military.
Having been in detention since May this year, the American journalist is also facing two additional charges in a different court for violating Myanmar's counterterrorism law and a statute covering treason and sedition.
Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations commissioner for human rights, said the sentencing of Fenster was emblematic of a wider plight of journalists in Myanmar who have faced constant repression in the wake of the February coup.
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