With 63 media personnel currently held, according to RSF’s Press Freedom Barometer, Myanmar is the world’s biggest jailer of journalists relative to its population.
In the space of a week, Myanmar’s military have arrested a banned news agency’s editor and passed prison sentences on three other journalists, including Han Thar Nyein, a nominee for this year’s Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press freedom Prize. RSF calls on the UN to toughen international sanctions on Myanmar’s generals to deter them from resorting to ever more terror.
BANGKOK: A subsidiary under Thailand’s state-owned energy giant PTT will suspend oil transport and storage operations in Myanmar over “violence and unrest” in the country, the company announced a week after losing one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds as an investor.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has warned that journalists in Myanmar are under increasing attack. In the following commentary by Shuan Crispin, the CPJ Senior Southeast Asia Representative, CPJ assesses the difficulties faced by journalists.
NGO Justice for Myanmar is calling on the Singapore stock exchange to delist a Singaporean company unless it ends all business with the Myanmar military junta.