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Reporters covering the pro-demcracy protests are being held in a notorious military-run prison in Yangon
03 Mar 2021
BY BENJAMIN LYNCH
A policeman charges towards a journalist covering protests in Myanmar on 26 February . Photo by Sit Htet Aung.
The new military junta in Myanmar is continuing to assault and jail journalists as it progresses with its bloody coup.
At least 26 journalists have been arrested since Min Aung Hlaing seized power on 1 February and at least ten have been charged under section 505(a) of Myanmar’s penal code.
Two of the journalists, MCN TV News reporter Tin Mar Swe and The Voice’s Khin May San, have been granted bail but the remaining eight are still detained in the notorious military-run Insein prison in Yangon, known as “the darkest hell-hole” in the country and a byword for torture, abuse and inhumane conditions for inmates.
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