Min Nyo, 51, a correspondent for Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) was sentenced Wednesday by a military court to three years in prison for his reporting, AP reported.

He is apparently the country’s first journalist since the army’s February takeover to be convicted under a recently revised provision in the Penal Code that critics charge criminalizes free speech.

It makes punishable by up to three years in prison any attempt to "hinder, disturb, damage the motivation, discipline, health and conduct" of soldiers and civil servants and cause their hatred, disobedience or disloyalty toward the military and the government.