Moe Yan Naing criticised the law under which he was punished. Police also said at the time the eviction order was not related to Moe Yan Naing's testimony at the trial of the Reuters journalists. Asked how he felt about the people who ordered his arrest, Moe Yan Naing said he would console himself through religion. Moe Yan Naing was released after serving around nine months of his one-year sentence. In September, the Yangon court found Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo guilty of breaking the colonial-era Official Secrets Act and sentenced them to seven years in jail.

Source: bd News24 February 01, 2019 04:41 UTC