May 30, 2024
Two education staff members from Kanpauk, Yephyu Township, Tanintharyi Region, who participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), were sentenced to ten years in prison each by the Dawei prison court on May 28, according to local sources.
The two individuals are Daw Nilar San, a 38-year-old middle school teacher, and Daw Thida Oo, a school clerk in her 40s. They were sentenced under Section 505(c) of the Penal Code and Section 50(j) of the Counter-Terrorism Law, a local resident reported.
“It’s getting increasingly difficult to live in Myanmar. Now, two female teachers have been sentenced to ten years in prison. The people in the town are living in fear day and night,” a resident of Dawei told New Day Myanmar.
The two teachers were arrested by the military council in February, and after more than three months of investigation, they were handed lengthy prison sentences on May 28.
In the same Kanpauk area of Yephyu Township, two other CDM teachers, Daw Yin Yin Aye and Daw Thet Thet Maw, who were also arrested in February, were each sentenced to four years in prison on May 7, according to local sources.
(This news has been translated using AI.)
