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Burma jails comedian for 45 years

By John Hirst

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Burma jails comedian for 45 years

Rap star also imprisoned as ruling junta cracks down on popular dissidents

Secret courts in Burma have sentenced a popular comedian and a hip-hop star to hefty jail terms as the military regime cracks down on its dissidents, from monks to celebrities. The comedian Zargana, detained in June for criticising the government's slow response to Cyclone Nargis in interviews with foreign news groups, was sentenced to 45 years in jail.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on November 22, 2008 (boomark / email).

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