Shin Daewe, one of Myanmar’s pioneering female documentary filmmakers, has been sentenced for life by a prison court for violating the counter-terrorism law by possessing a drone. She was arrested at a bus station in Yangon on 15 October 2023 when soldiers found a filming drone in her luggage. It then took the Myanmar authorities almost three months to bring the case to trial on 10 January 2024. She was allowed no legal representation during the closed trial of a military tribunal and was s...
