A Myanmar court has sentenced nine people to death...

A Myanmar court has sentenced nine people to death for high treason, including the editor of a sports magazine, legal community sources said.
A special court held inside Insein prison, on the outskirts of the capital Yangon, issued the sentences, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. Myanmar exile media groups also reported the sentences.
Shortly after the arrests in July, the government said the suspects were accused of plotting to overthrow Myanmar's military junta through bombings and assassinations.
It has denied the arrests concerned the journalism of Zaw Thet Htwe, 37, editor of the magazine "First Eleven."
It was not clear if the trial was open to the public, but political cases in Myanmar are often prosecuted unannounced ? making them, in practical terms, closed sessions. Myanmar, also known as Burma, rarely carries out death sentences.
The government claimed the suspects planned to create a mass movement in collusion with members of pro-democracy leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi National League for Democracy party.
There was no evidence of NLD involvement in any plot.