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“We will do so until Danny returns home safely to his family. “We are closely monitoring Danny’s situation and will continue to work for his immediate release,” said Ned Price, spokesperson for the US State Department in a statement.
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“The court disregarded a significant amount of evidence of his employment at Frontier, including tax and social security records and testimony from a Frontier employee,” said the Frontier statementįenster has received support from the US State Department and human rights groups. So, when he was arrested, he had been at Frontier for nine months. However, Frontier said Fenster resigned from Myanmar Now in July 2020 and had joined Frontier in August 2020. “Frontier Myanmar is deeply disappointed at the decision today to convict its Managing Editor, Danny Fenster, on three charges and impose prison sentences totalling 11 years,” said the Frontier statement on which it described Fenster conviction as “outrageous and unfair”.įrontier said the charges against Fenster were made alleging that Fenster was working for media house Myanmar Now in February after the military took over the country in a coup. He was found guilty of breaching immigration law, unlawful association and encouraging dissent against the military.įrontier said that Fenster was given the harshest possible sentence. Myanmar must stop jailing journalists for merely doing their jobs of reporting the news, says Shawn Crispin, Committee to Protect Journalists ’ (CPJ) in. Fenster was detained in May and accused of incitement and contacting opposition groups that were declared illegal by the military government. American journalist Danny Fenster has by a Myanmar court been sentenced to 11 years in prison on multiple charges including incitement, unlawful association, and visa violations.