Fourteen pro-democracy activists jailed for 65 years by Burmese court

A COURT in Burma sentenced 14 members of a well-known pro-democracy group to 65 years’ imprisonment each yesterday, relatives said.

The members of the 88 Generation Students group, including five women, were sentenced by a court in Yangon’s Insein Prison, they said.

“I heard from sources close to the prison that my son and 13 others were given 65-year prison sentences this morning in a closed-door trial,” said Nyunt Nyunt Oo, mother of 31-year-old Pandeik Tun, one of the 14. “No family members or defence lawyers were present at the trial.”