Scores of journalists staged a rare demonstration this morning in Myanmar's biggest city Yangon to protest against a jail term given to a reporter who was working on a story about corruption.

Wearing black T-shirts with slogans saying: "We don't want threat on press freedom" and carrying banners that read, "Right to information is the life of democracy," about 150 journalists and civil liberties activists marched down a busy central Yangon street decrying the three-month prison sentence given to Ma Khine from the Daily Eleven newspaper.

She was convicted by a court last month of trespassing, using abusive language and defamation.