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The award-winning documentary filmmaker Shin Daewe has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Myanmar. A court controlled by the military junta found the 50-year-old guilty of violating the country’s anti-terrorism law on Wednesday, a family member and local media reported. According to The Irrawaddy newspaper, she was accused of “financing and abetting terrorism.” She was detained in Yangon (formerly Rangoon) in October when she went to pick up a drone on October 15, 2023 for filming. “She is just a prominent filmmaker and respected artist. To serve this life long sentence is not fair for her…