The Dawei prison court on 28 May sentenced two Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) teachers from the Kan Pauk area in Yebyu Township, Tanintharyi Region, to ten years in prison each, according to local sources.
The CDM teachers – Daw Thida Oo and Daw Nilar Sann – were given the prison terms by the Dawei prison court under Section 50(j) of the Counter-Terrorism Law and 505(a) of the Penal Code.
According to locals, the junta arrested the two CDM teachers were in February and charged them under the sections of defamation of the state for teaching in online schools run by the National Unity Government (NUG) and have now been sentenced to these prison terms after three months.
Sources close to their families say that the two teachers are being held in Dawei Prison.
On 7 May, two other CDM teachers from the Kan Pauk area – Daw Thet Thet Maw and Daw Yin Yin Aye – were sentenced to four years each by the Yebyu court, according to locals.
According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), more than 26,000 people have been arrested since the military coup and more than 20,000 are still in detention, as announced on 28 May.
Sent by Than Lwin Times.