US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail by a military court three days ago.
His employer, English-language news site Frontier Myanmar, said he was on a flight out of Myanmar.
Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun, a spokesman for the military, which took power in a coup in February, confirmed to the BBC that Fenster could leave the country.
Fenster was detained in May as he was about to fly back to the US.
US journalist jailed in Myanmar for nearly 6 months is freed
He is one of dozens of journalists, and thousands of people overall, to be held since the coup.
Fenster, who was Frontier’s managing editor, had been convicted of breaching immigration law, unlawful association and encouraging dissent against the military.
Then last week he was hit with two additional charges of sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum term of life imprisonment.
American journalist Danny Fenster is out of prison in Myanmar, his employer said on Monday, just three days after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail for incitement and breaches of immigration and terrorism laws.
“Great news. I heard @DannyFenster is out,” Sonny Swe, the publisher of Frontier Myanmar, Fenster’s employer, said on Twitter. He did not provide details.
Another source at the online magazine confirmed the same information, reports Reuters.
The circumstances around his release were not immediately clear.
Fenster’s family, the US embassy in Yangon, and a spokesman for Myanmar’s ruling military council did not immediately respond to separate requests for comment.
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