Three days after the judgment: US journalist Danny Fenster in Myanmar released

The US journalist Danny Winden, who was arrested in myanmar and justified a few days ago, was surprisingly released.This was announced by the former US diplomat Bill Richardson on Monday.

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"Danny and the Richardson team will start their long journey home via Qatar in the next one and a half days and look forward to combining Danny with his parents Buddy and Rose and his brother Bryan in the USA," it said in a via emailwidespread explanation.

Richardson, who also worked as an intermediary at hostage frames, had come together a few days ago in Myanmar with the head of the military junta, Min Aung Hlaing,.Window release was ensured by a “private humanitarian visit” in the crisis country and personal negotiations with General Min aung Hlaing, according to the announcement.

Windows, a senior editor of the English -language magazine "Frontier Myanmar", was arrested at the Yangon airport at the end of May immediately before departure to the USA.In Myanmar, a military court spoke to the journalists guilty, among other things, because of incitement for turmoil.

The judgment on Friday was three charges, such as the employer of Winden, the news magazine "Frontier Myanmar", announced.Overall, the journalist now awaited eleven years in prison.Under the current law, the judges had imposed the maximum sentence, it said.(dpa)