A Myanmar junta court sentenced prominent democracy activist Ko Mya Aye to two years’ imprisonment under hate speech charges, reports the Irrawaddy.
Ko Mya Aye, the former 88 Generation student leader and now a Federal Democratic Force leader, was among the first people whose homes were surrounded and detained at gunpoint on February 1, 2021, during the coup. He has been under detention in Yangon’s notorious Insein Prison ever since and is not receiving proper medical treatment. U Mya Aye told the court that he was arrested without any reason and condemned the unfair trials. The sentence was handed down on his 56th birthday.
“As family members, we prepared for any news but today I felt anger and sadness,” his daughter Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, senior advocacy officer at Burma Campaign UK, posted on Facebook.