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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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Htet Htet Khine, a Burmese freelance journalist and former BBC Media Action presenter who was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour in a sham trial on 15 September after more than a year in pre-trial detention. She faces the possibility of an additional sentence.
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A freelance photographer was violently detained by junta troops and former photojournalist Ko Zaw Zaw was sentenced to three years in prison on August 20 and 24 respectively, amid rising attacks on media workers in Myanmar. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the military’s crackdown on press freedom and freedom of expression and calls for the immediate release of all detained journalists and media workers.