US condemns 'unjust' sentence of US journalist in Myanmar, urges release


Managing editor of online magazine Frontier Myanmar, U.S. journalist Danny Fenster, is pictured in an unknown location in this undated handout picture made available to Reuters on November 12, 2021. Frontier Myanmar/Handout via Reuters

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (AFP): The United States has denounced an 11-year sentence handed to a US journalist by Myanmar's military regime and demanded his release.

"We strongly condemn the regime's sentencing of Danny Fenster. The ruling today represents an unjust conviction of an innocent person," a State Department spokesperson said.

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