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- An American journalist
held in Myanmar

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was sentenced to 11 years
in prison on Friday.

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Danny Fenster was the managing
editor of online magazine

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"Frontier Myanmar"

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and was arrested when trying
to leave the country in May.

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He was charged with incitement

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and breaches of immigration laws
and unlawful association laws.

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More serious charges
of sedition and violation

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of the terrorism act
are yet to come,

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which are punishable each
with up to 20 years in prison.

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The US State Department
has called his detention

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profoundly unjust,

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and the US has been
pushing for his release.

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Frontier editor-in-chief
Thomas Kean said there was

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"absolutely no basis
to convict him."

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A spokesman for the ruling
military council

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could not immediately
be reached.

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Myanmar has been in chaos
since a military coup

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in February that overthrew
the democratically

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elected government
of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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More than 1,200 civilians
have been killed,

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and scores of journalists
are among thousands

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who have been
detained.