Sports Editor, 8 Others Are Sentenced to Death
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From Times Wire Reports
A special Myanmar court at Insein prison, on the outskirts of Yangon, has sentenced nine people to death for high treason, including the editor of a sports magazine, legal sources said.
The government has said the suspects were accused of plotting to overthrow Myanmar’s military junta through bombings and assassinations. It has denied the arrests concerned a story in the magazine edited by Zaw Thet Htwe, 37, that raised questions of official corruption.
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