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Fri 01 Jan 2010Burmese journalist jailed for 13 years

A court in Burma sentenced an award-winning journalist accused of working illegally for a foreign news outlet to 13 years in prison, a lawyer said today.

Authorities arrested Ngwe Soe Lin (28) in June last year after he left an Internet cafe in Yangon, accusing him of working for Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) without proper accreditation.