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AFP
Nearly half of the 87 journalists arrested by Myanmar’s junta in the five months since its staged a coup on Feb. 1 remain in detention, mostly on charges of defamation, prompting their colleagues, family members, and media watchdogs to call for their immediate release Thursday.
According to reporting by RFA’s Myanmar Service, 31 reporters were released prior to June 30 when the junta declared a general amnesty and freed 2,300 prisoners from the country’s jails, including another 14 journalists. The Ayeyarwaddy Times’ Maubin correspondent Aung Mya Than one of the 14 freed in the amnesty was rearrested on July 10, leaving a total of 43 domestic and international reporters currently in detention.
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Being a Journalist Is Ticket to Arrest, Myanmar Editor Says
Voice of America
09 Jul 2021, 08:35 GMT+10
BANGKOK - For about 20 years, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) broadcast uncensored news into Myanmar from exile. When a civilian government came to power in 2011, the independent outlet was finally able to open a newsroom in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar.
But that significant step for media freedom took a backward step in February when the military seized power and immediately turned its sights on the country s press. This photo released by the San Sai District Administrative Office in Thailand, shows a room where journalists working for Democratic Voice of Burma were arrested, May 9, 2021
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