29 August 2005

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Cartoonist Chit Swe freed after completing sentence


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Chit Swe

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(RSF/IFEX) - Cartoonist Chit Swe, who is also an opposition National League for Democracy activist, was released after completing a one-month prison sentence on 23 August 2005.

He was arrested during a meeting at his home on 12 July and given the prison sentence (along with a six-month suspended sentence) by a Rangoon court on 3 August. He was convicted of "defying the authorities' orders" under a state of emergency law often used against government opponents.



Source:

Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
@rsf_rwb
 

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