Briefs, December 5, 2012
Demonstrators who protested peacefully in Yangon against a mining project in northwestern Myanmar have been charged under a law that denies them release on bail, a lawyer said.
YANGON - Demonstrators who protested peacefully in Yangon against a mining project in northwestern Myanmar have been charged under a law that denies them release on bail, a lawyer said. Aung Thein, the lawyer for two of the six activists arrested last week in Yangon, said they were accused of inciting unrest, a criminal offence. AP
JAKARTA - Hundreds of Indonesians have demanded a district chief's resignation following his text-message divorce of a teenage girl four days after their marriage. Aceng Fikri, 40, chief of West Java district in Garut, took Fani Oktora, 17, as his second wife in July, but divorced her, alleging Oktora was not a virgin when they married. AP