"Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, a documentary filmmaker and founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, was today convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment by a Yangon court under section 505(a) of Myanmar’s Penal Code, which concerns the publication or circulation of statements ‘with intent to cause, or which is likely to cause, any officer, soldier, sailor or airman, in the Army, Navy or Air Force to mutiny or otherwise disregard or fail in his duty as such’. Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi was arrested on 12 April 2019 after he made Facebook posts critical of Myanmar’s 2008 Constitution and the role it gives the military in government. A separate charge under section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Act, which penalises online defamation, is pending. In April 2019, a court denied Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi bail despite the fact that he has serious health concerns stemming from liver cancer. Over the course of his trial, human rights organizations expressed grave concern over his detention under such conditions. Speaking from Insein prison on 17 July 2019, Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi noted that he had missed a post-operation medical check relating to the removal of cancerous growths from his liver..."