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State media in Myanmar reports that four democracy activists have been executed, in what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment in decades.

Former lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw, writer and activist Ko Jimmy, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were accused of committing "terror acts".

Thinzar Shunlei Yi is a democracy activist in neighbouring Thailand. She told Newsday that family members of those reportedly executed have been trying to find out more information: 鈥淭he family members鈥�with their lawyers are now waiting鈥�to talk with prison authorities, at least to see their bodies.鈥� She adds that so far, this has been 鈥渄enied鈥�.

(Picture: Prominent pro-democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu (C), or Ko Jimmy (pictured here in 2012 with his wife Ni Lar Thein (L) holding her child), was one of the four political prisoners reportedly executed. Credit: Soe Than WIN/AFP via Getty Images.)