Burma: prison and hard labor for a pub with the image of Buddha

Two and a half years in prison with hard labor for an advertisement showing a Buddha image with headphones. That's the trouble with were sentenced Tuesday in Burma, Myanmar, New Zealand and Burmese managers and the owner of a bar for religious insults.

"It will be difficult to say whether the verdict is fair or not, because that is Myanmar, it is not like in other democratic countries. That's all I can say, "read carefully and earlier Mya Tway the New Zealander's lawyer.

"I am very shocked, very unfair," launched after the verdict the wife of the owner of the bar.

As for Buddhist monks radicals is satisfaction. "This is an appropriate judgment. It is neither too hard nor too soft, felt Pynia Wuntha of the Union of Patriots Buddhist monks. They got just what they deserved. As a Buddhist, I do not want them to suffer more than that. ".

Open to the outside world in 2011, after decades of miliary regime, Burma is experiencing a rise of Buddhist nationalism, driven by extremist monks.