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Lifetime Imprisonment for Owning a Drone: ICFR Denounces Jailing of Myanmar Documentary Filmmaker Shin Daewe
A filmmakers' coalition is calling for the release of Shin Daewe, a Myanmar documentary director sentenced to life imprisonment on terror charges.
The Europe-based International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk has called for the immediate release of Myanmar documentary maker Shin Daewe. One of Myanmar’s leading female filmmakers, Shin Daewe (“An Untitled Life,” “Take Me Home,” “A Bright Future”) was arrested in Yangon in October after she had gone to collect a drone. “The conviction of Shin Daewe with its concomitant harsh sentencing is the latest example of the Myanmar junta’s relentless persecution of any dissent,” says European Film Academy chair and ICFR founding board member, Mike Downey, “This is the latest in a series of unfair trials and cruel and repressive sentences which are part of a broader effort to instill fear in the junta’s critics, suppress independent coverage, and deny the reality of the military’s serious and ongoing rights violations.
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