One year since a democracy-suspending coup, press freedom is dying in Myanmar. A military campaign of intimidation, censorship, arrests, and detentions of journalists has more recently graduated to outright killing, an escalation of repression that aims ultimately to stop independent media reporting on the junta’s crimes and abuses. In January, military
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Myanmar junta continues to arrest journos
Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing-led military junta arrested two more journalists from Dawei, the headquarter of Tanintharyi region in southern Myanmar, on 19 January 2022, local media reported. Ko Zaw and Ma Moe Myint were arrested along with a media employee Ko Thar Gyi, who also works for DaweiWatch Burmese news portal
Myanmar military steps up crackdown on journalists
As the imprisonment of scribes and other democratic activists under arbitrary laws becomes a new normal in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), the Switzerland based media rights body Press Emblem Campaign urges the military regime in Nay Pie Taw to release all media workers unreservedly. The military junta led by general