Kyaw Win Thant (in red) leaves court after a hearing in Mandalay, Myanmar, on June 2, 2020. - AFP
NAYPYIDAW (Reuters): A Myanmar court has sentenced a doctor to 21 months in jail after convicting him of insulting Buddhist monks in connection with a debate about a proposal to teach sex education in schools.
Kyaw Win Thant, 31, was arrested in May after angry scenes at a monastery in the central city of Meiktila, where he apologised to monks for deriding them in Facebook posts, a senior monk said at the time.
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