New Zealander Phil Blackwood and two colleagues from Myanmar have been jailed for two and a half years with hard labour for insulting religion in the country.<br /><br /> Their crime was using a psychedelic image of Buddha wearing headphones to promote a cheap drinks night at a bar.<br /><br /> Blackwood’s lawyer, Mya Tway, was not hopeful of a happy outcome for his client.<br /><br /> “This is Myanmar, not like other democratic countries. That is all I can say,” he told reporters outside a courthouse in Yangon.<br /><br /> Bar manager Blackwood has apologised online, saying he did not intend to offend Buddhism when he posted the image on the bar’s Facebook page.<br /><br /> But monk Pyinya Wuntha, of the Patriotic Myanmar Buddhist Monks Union, went to court for the verdict and said it was an appropriate sentence.<br /><br /> “This is neither too harsh nor too lenient. They just got what they deserved. As a Buddhist, I don’t want them to suffer more than this,” he said.<br /><br /> Blackwood and his associates Htut Ko Ko Lwin and Tun Thurein had all plea
