6/9/22, 9:43 AM Filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi sentenced to one year’s hard labour | Frontier Myanmar ISSUES SIGN UP NOW Filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi sentenced to one year’s hard labour  AUGUST 29, 2019   By NAW BETTY HAN | FRONTIER YANGON — A Yangon court has sentenced filmmaker U Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour for criticising the Tatmadaw in a series of Facebook posts. The sentence was announced at Insein Township Court on August 29 after the 57-year-old filmmaker, who is suffering from liver cancer, was convicted under section 505(a) of the Penal Code, which criminalises making, publishing or sharing “any statement, rumour or report” that might induce any military service member “to mutiny or otherwise disregard or fail in his duty”. The maximum penalty for a conviction under 505(a) is two years’ imprisonment and a K500,000 fine. “I expected the worst and I’m not surprised; don’t worry I’ll be back,” Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi said as he was being led from the court. He told reporters he did not know if he would receive treatment in Insein Prison for his liver cancer. Support independent journalism in Myanmar Sign up to be a Frontier member. The conviction follows legal action brought by the Tatmadaw over Facebook posts on February 15 and March 23, which resulted in the founder of the https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/filmmaker-min-htin-ko-ko-gyi-sentenced-to-one-years-hard-labour/ 1/6