Student gets six months in jail for mid-2015 graffiti protest

AMARAPURA: A court in Mandalay Division’s Amarapura Township sentenced a student activist to six months in prison on Friday for his role in a graffiti protest on the grounds of Yadanabon University in mid-2015, The Irrawaddy reported.

Ye Yint Paing Mu was arrested in December for spray-painting messages that called on the government to resign and demanded the release of students and their supporters detained during the nationwide demonstrations against the National Education Law.

He was charged for incitement under Penal Code and under Article 18 of the Peaceful Assembly Law.

He said he would not appeal.

The student still faces a charge of unlawful assembly to be heard in Mandalay’s Chan Aye Tharzan Township court.

Three other students detained in July last year and sentenced for taking part in the same graffiti protest at Yadanabon University were released in December.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/148836

-- Thai PBS 2016-01-30

For a lesser harsh punishment he should have stabbed a farrang tourist instead.

Returning happiness to the people by locking up their children. We just have to hope the prisons are big enough for 100% national joy. Or maybe build some new ones, just to be safe.

Geez, cant any of you guys read, or are you just so eager to get into the thick of it ? It happened in BURMA.