25-year term for Daw San San:

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Tuesday, April 21, 1998 Published at 12:10 GMT 13:10 UK 
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World: S/W Asia
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Burmese activist jailed for BBC interview

A leading member of the democracy movement in Burma, San San, has been 
sent to prison for twenty-five years by the military authorities after 
being accused of distributing false information domestically and 
internationally. 

The main exiled Burmese students group ABSDF said the jailing was a 
result of an interview San San gave to the BBC last year. 

But a Burmese military spokesman denied it jailed people just for giving 
media interviews. 

San San was elected to parliament in the landslide victory by the 
National League for Democracy in 1990 -- a parliament never allowed by 
the Burmese military to take office. 

>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service 

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