2 Burmese journalists jailed - hard labour for defamation.

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2 Burmese journalists jailed - hard labour for defamation.

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Interesting that the army guy chose to sue the chief editor and deputy chief reporter of the paper instead of the freelance journalist involved - I think the Burmese press will get the message. Self-censorship or else.

And hard labour again. I guess there's a lot of work on.
Two Burmese journalists have been sentenced to serve two months in prison with hard labour after being convicted of a defamation charge, reports their newspaper, the Myanmar Post..

San Moe Tun, the Post’s chief editor, and Than Htike Thu, its deputy chief reporter, were charged after a complaint by a member of the army who is also an MP, Major Thein Zaw.

He claimed that he was defamed in a story published on 29 January 2014, “A military parliamentary representative says they have to take seats in parliament because of low educational standards.”


Zaw, who was interviewed for the story by a freelance reporter, said he was misquoted. But he did not level his complaint against that reporter, choosing to sue the two staffers instead.


On the day the two were jailed (Wednesday 18 March), the Myanmar Post published a black box on its front cover in protest at violent police action against student protestors and media staff in Letpadan on 10 March.

Rights and press freedom groups, such as the International Press Institute (IPI), have expressed concern over pressures on journalists in Burma (Myanmar) since President U Thein Sein took power in 2011.

In four years, 17 journalists have been imprisoned on various charges, and there are currently 13 journalists in jail. A freelance reporter, Ko Par Gyi, was shot dead in army custody in October last year.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greens ... ilitary-mp

Actually, the defamatory statement behind the arrests does sound stupid : “A military parliamentary representative says they have to take seats in parliament because of low educational standards.” (Myanmar Post , 29 January 2014.) :oops:
No wonder he sued.
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Jailed for Journalism: A Profile of Detained Reporters in Myanmar
Posted 6 August 2017
[This edited article is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished by Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement.]
The arrest of esteemed investigative reporter Ko Swe Win at Yangon International Airport on the evening of Sunday July 30, 2017, temporarily raised the total number of journalists detained in Myanmar for doing their job since June to five.

Out of the five, Ko Swe Win, the chief editor of news agency Myanmar Now, is the only one who is not being sued by the military—instead, a follower of the banned nationalist group Ma Ba Tha is prosecuting him for posting on Facebook an article which criticized ultranationalist monk U Wirathu.

Ko Swe Win has since been granted bail from Maha Aung Myay Township Court in Mandalay, but his four colleagues are still imprisoned.
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All of the arrests are directly linked to the work of the reporters, exacerbating fears of a clampdown on independent media and casting serious doubts over whether the country is opening a new chapter on press freedom...
https://globalvoices.org/2017/08/06/jai ... n-myanmar/
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coming up to the 29th anniversary of the 88 uprising.
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