The Union Election Commission (UEC), overseen by the coup Military Council is currently engaged in conducting assessments and verifications of political parties based in Shan State that have already completed their registration for the upcoming election.
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.
The Committee to Protect Journalists' annual prison census has found that at least 42 journalists were imprisoned in Myanmar for their reporting as of 1 December.