Fresh charges for Danny Fenster, arrested in May as part of crackdown by junta, carry maximum sentence of life in prison
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Myanmar’s junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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MILITARY has squeezed the press since taking power in a February coup, arresting dozens of journalists critical of its crackdown on dissent that has killed more than 1,200 people, according to a local monitoring group.