A U.S. State Department official called on Wednesday for the immediate release of two American journalists who were arrested by Myanmar's military junta. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the arrests of Danny Fenster and Nathan Maung were of deep concern, and urged that they be freed and allowed…
A military court in Myanmar has sentenced two journalists to two years in prison for their reporting, a move that was decried by rights groups as the latest assault on press freedom since the country’s coup
TWO journalists have been jailed for two years in Myanmar for reporting on protests against the army junta.
Aung Kyaw, 31, a reporter for the Democratic Voice of Burma, and Zaw Zaw, 38, a freelance reporter for the online news agency Mizzima, were convicted Wednesday by the court in Myeik, a city in southern Myanmar.
The two had been charged under a recently revised provision in the penal code with spreading misinformation that could “incite unrest.”
According to Myanmar’s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, about 90 journalists have been arrested since February’s seizure of power by the military, with more than half still in detention, and 33 still in hiding.