In this image made from video, Dutch citizen Klaas Haytema is escorted into a Myanmar court where he was sentenced to three months in prison for interfering with a religious observance, in Mandalay, Myanmar, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (Associated Press)MANDALAY, Myanmar — A Myanmar court sentenced a Dutch citizen to three months in prison Thursday for interfering with a religious observance by unplugging an amplifier blasting a late-night Buddhist sermon near his hotel in Mandalay, the country’s cultural capital. Local media reported that he apologized and said he hadn’t known the loudspeakers were broadcasting religious content. Mandalay, a major tourist attraction in central Myanmar, is the country’s cultural capital and the former seat of Burmese kings. In early 2015, a Myanmar court sentenced a New Zealand bar manager, Phil Blackwood, to two years in prison after he posted an image of Buddha wearing headphones on the bar’s official Facebook page in late 2014.

Source: Washington Post October 06, 2016 10:53 UTC