6/9/22, 10:21 AM Author of controversial ‘penis poem’ released from prison in Myanmar | Coconuts Coconuts yangon Search... Home Coconuts Yangon News Food & Drink Lifestyle Features Travel Select City Author of controversial ‘penis poem’ rele ased from prison in Myanmar By Coconuts Yangon May 24, 2016 12:41pm Yangon time Cheers erupted in a small courtroom in Yangon’s Shwepyithar Township this morning as the judge in 24-year-old Burmese poet Maung Saungkha’s case sentenced him to six months for online defamation. Why is that good news? Because he has been in Insein Prison since he was arrested in November, so the sentence amounts to time served and he will be released today. Saungkha was tracked down by police on November 5 a few weeks after he posted a poem to his Facebook account in which the narrator claims to have a tattoo of the president on his penis. https://coconuts.co/yangon/news/author-controversial-penis-poem-released-prison-myanmar/ 1/5