NLD activists imprisoned

Reports from Burma say that five activists from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy have been sentenced to twenty-one years in prison each.

Those imprisoned include a member of parliament, Saw Naing Naing, and a well-known poet, Pyapon Neelon Oo.

Sources from within the pro-democracy party say that the activists were sentenced under the emergency act and an act outlawing the printing of illegal documents.

A sixth activist was sentenced to seven years in jail.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service