media industry: Ross Dunkley, a pioneer in the media industry in Southeast Asia over the past 20 years, has been sentenced to 13 years' jail by a court in Yangon, Myanmar for possession of drugs, according to Nine News Australia. The sentence was handed down on Wednesday after the Perth-born Dunkley and his co-defendants had spent more than one year languishing in the hospital wing of Myanmar's notorious Insein prison, a massive colonial-era jail built by the British in colonial times, as the case slowly proceeded through the court. To improve your experience update it here News World Australian publishing pioneer jailed for drugs in Myanmar By AAP10 08pm Aug 7, 2019Australian journalist Ross Dunkley, editor of the Yangon-based English language weekly The Myanmar Times, has been jailed for 13 years in Myanmar for drug possession. Dunkley was arrested on June 6 last year when police raided the home he rented and shared with co-defendant and British national John McKenzie in Bahan township, a suburb of Yangon. Ross Dunkley after his first court appearance in 2015. A number of local women present in the house were also arrested and were sentenced to 11 years.
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