USDP official gets six months in jail for fake Suu Kyi nude



YANGON: -- A Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) official was sentenced to six months in prison with hard labor for sharing fake, altered images of the head of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi transposed onto the body of a naked woman, The Irrawaddy reported.

After a four-month trial in Irrawaddy Division’s Kangyidaunt Township, the local court pronounced the joint secretary of the township USDP office, Than Tun, guilty under Article 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law on Monday, after he shared the doctored photo of the pro-democracy leader, accompanied by vulgar text, online.

Shared by Facebook user “Thu Thu” on Sept 2, the image quickly stirred up controversy. Sithu Aung, a volunteer with the Hand to Hand Free Education Network, filed the lawsuit against Than Tun in October, alleging that he was the owner of the account.

Sithu Aung, the plaintiff, said he was satisfied with the punishment.

Monday’s verdict is just the latest in a number of punishments handed out during outgoing President Thein Sein’s administration under the Telecommunications Law.

In December, National League for Democracy (NLD) supporter Chaw Sandi Tun was sentenced to six months in jail for sharing a photo on Facebook that likened newly redesigned Myanmar Army uniforms to apparel worn by Suu Kyi.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/157249


-- Thai PBS 2016-03-29

Som nam nah, you stupid ignorant man !

6 months hard labour in a burmese prison

Ouch!

So the new "democracy" in Burma is not quite as altruistic as they make out, as their treatment of muslims seems to bear out (not that I care about that) but if you can't caricature a public figure then it isn't democracy at all.

This new leadership in Burma is akin to the pigs standing and wearing clothes in Animal Farm.

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