Burmese media say a local journalist has been sentenced to two years inprison for covering a rally by victims of a devastating cyclone.
Mediasources say a court in Rangoon sentenced Ein Khaing Oo on Friday aftera closed-door trial, in which she had no defense lawyer. She wasconvicted of taking photos that could be used by foreign newsorganizations to harm Burmese interests.
The reporter forBurmese magazine already had spent five months in prison. She was arrested June 10 while covering the rally of cyclonesurvivors outside a United Nations building in Rangoon.
Theparticipants in the rally were appealing for aid from the U.N.Development Program after failing to get help from Burmese authorities.
Cyclone Nargis battered Burma's Irrawaddy Delta in early May, leaving around 130,000 people dead or missing.
Mediarights group Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at Ein KhaingOo's jail sentence and appealed to Burma's military rulers to free her.