Update on Journalism and Media Safety in Myanmar
Update on Journalism and Media Safety in Myanmar Highlights A former journalist, who has been in detention since late December 2023, was sentencedto three years in prison for incitement in…
Violation of Media Freedom in February 2024
In February 2021, there were two specific cases of violation of media freedom–one deceased and one arrested case in the previous month–reflecting the continuous pattern of restriction on Myanmar’s independent…
Update on Journalism and Media in Myanmar (July-Sep)
Journalists continue to work in dangerous situations in Myanmar’s continuing conflict, where they face challenges in physical and digital safety, gathering news, and economic security. As of end-September 2023, 59…
1000 days have passed
The Myanmar military coup d’état, has been 1,000 days on October 28, 2023. The military oppressively committed arbitrary arrests and deliberate killings of the Myanmar people in all forms of…
Myanmar’s Citizen Journalists
What are Citizen Journalists?What is currently causing the CJs to struggle?This video describes the struggles of Citizen Journalists while performing their duties during the revolution. Watch the video here: https://cinemata.org/view?m=19VLl3iZs
Update on Journalism and Media in Myanmar
Highlights For the first half (Jan-Jun) of 2023, Myanmar’s military junta continued the heavy restriction onmedia freedom by arresting journalists and revoking media licenses. Specifically, four journalists,including an editor and…
Repeated Dark Age of News Media
A decade after Myanmar’s independence, the military administration, resulting from the first military take-over in 1958, banned privately owned Lu-Du (the People) and Kyae-Mone (the Mirror) newspapers for criticizing them…
Dictatorship Oppresses Media Freedom
Media freedom in Myanmar has fallen into the darkness since the day of the military coup on the 1st of February. The coup council has been oppressing media freedom which…
“A Chance to Fix in Time”
military regime established the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to rule the country with tyrannical system, leading it to the absolute loss of free speech. The 2010 general election…
Mid-term Report on Freedom of Expression
(a) Failure to Abolish Article 66(d) of Telecommunications Law The abuse of Telecommunications Law, enacted in October 2013 has been infamous since 2015 when the competing political parties traded accusation…