Myanmar junta says it will execute two prominent pro-democracy leaders

Four people including ex-MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy to be put to death

Myanmar's junta has said it will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country's first judicial executions since 1990.

Four people, including the former MP Phyo Zeya Thaw and the democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Ko Jimmy, will be hanged according to prison procedures," Zaw Min Tun told AFP on Friday.