Yangon - Prominent Myanmar dissident Min Ko Naing and eight other student activists have been sentenced to 65 years in prison in an ongoing judicial crackdown on opposition to the ruling junta, witnesses said Saturday.

The Special Court of Maubin, a town in the Irrawaddy Division about 95 kilometres southwest of Yangon, sentenced Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, Mya Aye, Pyone Cho, Aung Thu, Htay Kywe, Nyan Lin, Myo Aung Naing and Hla Myo Naung to 65 years imprisonment each, witnesses who attended the court verdicts said.