The Committee to Protect Journalists described the jailing, sentencing, and granting early release to journalists in Myanmar as a "cruel carousel" and a "form of psychological warfare aimed at breaking the will of independent media outlets."
Three Burmese journalists have just been sentenced to four or five years in prison, bringing to five the number of journalists to have received long jail terms from Myanmar’s military junta since late November. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for their immediate release and urges the international community to do much more to combat the junta’s escalating terror.
This week the European Parliament issued a joint motion for a resolution calling for an end to the persecution of journalists covering the crisis in Myanmar and the Myanmar junta to be brought to book for serious rights abuse in the wake of the February 2021 coup.
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