Eight protesters against the military government, including prominent activist Htet Myat Aung, were sentenced to 37 years on Tuesday by two courts in Mandalay, an activist group said on Wednesday. The sentences were imposed following the demonstrators’ convictions under the electoral law and counterterrorism law, according to May Hnin, a spokesperson for the Anti-Junta Forces Coordination Committee-Mandalay.
A ninth activist was sentenced to 27 years after being convicted under the counterterrorism law, she added. The activists were arrested on December 4, a day after they staged a flash protest in downtown Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city.