November 26, 2015

Myanmar Rohingya calendar men jailed on new charges: police

Five Myanmar men fined for publishing a calendar that described the country's persecuted Muslim Rohingya as a recognised ethnic minority have been rearrested and jailed on fresh charges, police said Wednesday.

The men were initially taken into custody over the weekend in Yangon and fined $800 each on Monday after pleading guilty to a publishing law offence.

But they have now been rearrested and jailed on separate charges of inciting alarm or panic, a charge that carries up to two years jail.

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