YANGON (AFP) – Five Myanmar men fined for publishing a calendar that described the country’s persecuted Muslim Rohingya as a recognized 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.
“We arrested five persons yesterday under the warrant by the court. They were sent to Insein prison,” said Khin Maung Latt, police chief of Pazundaung township.
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