US journalist, Danny Fenster, has been released from jail in Myanmar on Monday; after being sentenced to eleven years in prison with the charge of using a naval courtroom docket. He was “pardoned” before being released on “humanitarian grounds”, the navy authorities stated. His release was secured after negotiations among the junta and the ex-US ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson. Fenster’s employer, Frontier Myanmar, in a statement said that he has been put aboard a flight out of Myanmar.
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Danny Fenster, who was managing editor of the English-language news site of Frontier Myanmar, an independent news publication, was convicted of breaching immigration law, the Unlawful Association Act, and inspiring dissent in opposition to the navy. He was levied with two more charges of sedition and terrorism before being set for being trialed on Tuesday, which conveys a likely lifetime period in jail. Fenster was first detained in May as the journalist was preparing to board a flight back to America and spent 176 days in jail till he was released.
Danny Fenster is one among dozens of journalists, and heaps of humans overall, to be detained since Myanmar’s navy took over the governance after a coup in February. He denied that America had promised anything for facilitating his release, pronouncing it as Myanmar’s intent to “preserve good relations with other countries”. The charges had been all primarily based on the allegation that he was working for the banned media outlet Myanmar Now. Danny Fenster had resigned from Myanmar Now in July 2020 and joined Frontier the very next month.
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