Anti-coup protesters display the three-finger sign of resistance during a flash mob on June 3, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. - AP
YANGON (Reuters): A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday (June 2) jailed two journalists for incitement and spreading false news, their organisations said, part of an ongoing crackdown that a top US official called an attack on freedom of expression.
A military court in southern Myeik sentenced Aung Kyaw of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) and Zaw Zaw, a freelance reporter for Mizzima, to two years in prison over their reporting of anti-junta protests, Mizzima and DVB said.
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