YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A court in Myanmar sentenced a journalist to one year in prison for trespassing and obstructing a civil servant while doing a story on education, a spokesman for his media company said Tuesday, in the latest sign the country’s media climate is worsening.

Zaw Pe, a 41-year-old video journalist for Democratic Voice of Burma, was in the central region of Magwe covering the selection of students for a Japanese-funded excursion trip to Japan when he was arrested after interviewing students and filming inside an education department office, said Khin Maung Soe, a DVB spokesman.