Prominent Monk, Others Receive Lengthy Prison Sentences (www.irrawaddy.org)

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Ashin Gambira, one of the organizers of a monk-led uprising that captured international headlines last year, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on Tuesday by a special court convened behind closed doors at Rangoon’s Insein Prison.

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