Activist jailed for mocking army uniform on Facebook by comparing it to women's skirt

Uniform: Army chiefs take offence at jibe

A court in Myanmar jailed a woman for six months today for a Facebook post "ridiculing" the country's army chief and the colour of a new uniform.
Chaw Sandi Tun, a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's election-winning National League for Democracy (NLD) party, was found guilty by the Ma-ubin Township Court in Ayeyawady Region, lawyer Robert San
Aung said.
She was sentenced in a Myanmar court under the telecommunications law, enacted in 2013 as part of an opening up of the telecoms sector.
The act contains a broadly worded clause that prohibits use of the telecoms network to "extort, threaten, obstruct, defame, disturb, inappropriately influence or intimidate".
Chaw Sandi Tun's mocking post compared the light green new uniform for army officers with that of a "longyi", a traditional Myanmar skirt worn by politician Suu Kyi.