Lifetime Imprisonment for Owning a Drone: ICFR Denounces Jailing of Myanmar Documentary Filmmaker Shin Daewe
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variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief 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.
After three months on remand she was tried by a military tribunal, inside the Insein Prison and without legal representation.
She was sentenced to life imprisonment for violating Myanmar’s anti-terrorism law by possessing a drone. Myanmar is ruled by a military junta that seized control in February 2021 from a civilian government that it had previously backed.
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