18 years in prison for taking a photograph

[DannyDMR]

http://blog.digitalrev.com/2011/09/19/photojournalist-sentenced-to-18-years-in-prison/

Found this on Digital Rev

 

[Oggy]

...and I thought some of my pictures were criminally bad.

 

[joescrivens]

pics or it didn't happen

 

[Photodiva]

We are talking Myanmar here. Not quite as liberal as other countries.

 

[gingerjon]

Damaging the tranquility of the government?

Either the translation is poetic or the lawmakers of Burma have a functioning sense of surrealism.

 

[Chris Primadona]

I think their goverment is damaging the tranquillity and unity of their government, not the poor bloke spending the next 18 years in jail for taking a photo!