Five magazine staffers in Myanmar have been sentenced to a decade of hard labor . Observers say it marks a return to old ways following a couple of years of promising reforms . The five journalists were arrested last year after they published an article about the country's military junta, which has ruled since 1962.
Five magazine staffers in Myanmar have been sentenced to a decade of hard labor . Observers say it marks a return to old ways following a couple of years of promising reforms . The sentences have been criticized around the world as `` outrageously harsh '' The magazine , since shuttered , had run stories about the production of chemical weapons .