Myanmar Karen leader 'jailed for 20 years'

A court in Myanmar yesterday sentenced a leader of the Karen ethnic minority group to two decades in prison for treason, his legal adviser said, in a case that has soured peace efforts.
Nyein Maung, a member of the Karen National Union (KNU) central committee, was arrested last year in China and deported to Myanmar, where he was taken into custody.
A special court in Yangon's Insein prison gave him life imprisonment -- which is equivalent to 20 years in Myanmar -- for high treason, said his adviser Aung Thein.
Nyein Maung was handed an additional three years under the illegal organisation act but will serve the two sentences concurrently, he said.