YANGON: A man has been jailed for nine months after calling Myanmar's president "crazy" in a Facebook post, his wife said Friday, in the latest use of a junta-era defamation law under the new civilian government.
Aung Win Hlaing was convicted under Myanmar's telecommunications law for calling President Htin Kyaw an "idiot" and "crazy" in online posts, his wife Hnin Hnin Win told Agence France-Presse.
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