Kiwi faces 4 years jail for Buddha ad images in Burma
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I would love to read about 20 years in jail. Especially if he had his life ahead of him . I love hearing about bad news happening to others.
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Found this, definitely mentions the hard labor.Username Taken wrote:
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The trio will serve two years of hard labour for insulting religion and six months for disobeying an order from a public servant.
http://asiancorrespondent.com/131469/ph ... us-insult/
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^^ Actually, I don't read AsiaCorrespondent, but I read about it in Time magazine.
http://time.com/3747187/burma-buddhism- ... blackwood/
http://time.com/3747187/burma-buddhism- ... blackwood/
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UPDATEkiwiincambodia wrote:Found this, definitely mentions the hard labor.Username Taken wrote: @Anchor Moy - Source?
The trio will serve two years of hard labour for insulting religion and six months for disobeying an order from a public servant.
http://asiancorrespondent.com/131469/ph ... us-insult/
Philip Blackwood during his trial for blasphemy in December 2014. He has since lost 20kg on a poor prison diet, his father said. Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP
No mention of hard labour, but extremely bad prison conditions.
Blackwood has dual NZ/GB nationality, but seems like neither country wants to rock the boat in the lead up to the elections, and investment takes precedent over citizens. Maybe there will be an amnesty after the elections....When they last visited Philip in June, they found “awful conditions. There was a hole in a corner as a long drop into a open sewer. He was sleeping on a pallet and there was a window but it had been blocked off”.
“He put on a brave face. He doesn’t want us to see him suffering,” he said. Philip was fed “rice and gruel” and was now getting some protein once or twice a week. “For the first three months, Philip was deprived of any contact from outside the prison,” he said.
The top security Insein jail is notorious worldwide for torture and inhumane conditions, mainly for political prisoners. Former inmates say the prison is tantamount to a death sentence and the fortress is known locally as the “darkest hell-hole in Burma”...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o ... anmar-jail
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This case is a bit like turning up in Saudi and having a dancing Muhammad (PBUH) on your restaurant flyer - of course you're going to be in shit for it. Myanmar and Sri Lanka have been "hardline" Buddhist for a good long while; the only surprise is that these morons thought it was a good idea to use the Buddha's image to promote beering it up. They should be thankful that they weren't Rohingya - they wouldn't have lived to see the trial if they had been.
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I think Cambodia is pretty tolerant of criticism/ other opinions when it comes to culture/religion, compared to Myanmar/ Thailand.
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There is an open undercurrent of Fascistic schadenfreude in the posts here which back, implicitly or explicitly, this gross over-punishment. Shame on the lot of you.
We are all in or connected with Cambodia because it is the most relaxed of countries and all of us enjoy it to damn near the max. You guys are sitting here getting off by pouring water on a drowning man. Are other jollies that hard to come by?
We are all in or connected with Cambodia because it is the most relaxed of countries and all of us enjoy it to damn near the max. You guys are sitting here getting off by pouring water on a drowning man. Are other jollies that hard to come by?
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