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...house of a prominent democrat. Stupidly, I had no idea who she was or what risks Ko Myo had taken to bring me there. Today, he takes a spoonful of tea-leaf salad and shakes his head in mock disgust. "To think I risked a 10-year prison sentence for that," he says...
...Greedy's, Ko Myo lent me his copy of 1984, one of a collection of banned or sensitive books that he disguises in brown paper and risks another lengthy prison term for circulating. I reread it one afternoon in my hotel room with the curtains drawn, emerging hours later to discover that two military-intelligence agents were harassing the staff about my identity and movements. Their timing was unnerving. Orwell's "Hate Week" parades have a modern Burmese equivalent. Mass rallies had been staged at stadiums nationwide to support a "road map" to democracy launched by Khin Nyunt...
...terrorized. A local NLD leader was jailed for five years for seeing a foreign reporter. I arrived in Mandalay to news that Win Mya Mya, a prominent NLD member who had had both arms broken in the Black Friday attack, had been shifted from a military hospital to a prison cell at nearby Shwebo. Her relatives were still forbidden...
DIED. FRANCES SCHREUDER, 65, onetime New York City socialite who served 13 years in prison for persuading her 17-year-old son Marc to kill her father; of chronic pulmonary disease; in San Diego. Prosecutors alleged that in 1978 Schreuder feared her profligate spending would cause her to be disinherited by her wealthy father Franklin Bradshaw. Her son's murder of his grandfather inspired two books and two TV mini-series...
...lead to formal partition of the island, in which the north, which is currently recognized only by Ankara , gains international recognition as a separate state. - By Andrew Purvis. With reporting by Anthee Carassava An Open-Source Spy RUSSIA A Moscow court sentenced researcher Igor Sutyagin to 15 years in prison after a jury convicted him of treason for spying. Prosecutors claimed that Sutyagin passed classified defense information to a U.K. company that they say was a CIA front. Sutyagin said that he carried...