Courts in Burma (that which the junta claims to be Myanmar) sentenced more than a dozen activists to prison Thursday in a continued judicial crackdown on the country's pro-democracy movement that has drawn international condemnation.
The verdicts came after the United States, United Nations, and Britain denounced long prison terms given to more than 30 democracy activists in military-run Burma earlier this week.
Some were sentenced at closed-door trials to 65 years in jail.
They included several who played prominent roles ahead of mass pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the ruling junta in September last year.
"These brave democracy activists are peaceful citizens whose only crime was to challenge the regime's illegitimate rule," State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters Wednesday.
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