Journalists are being attacked and pursued for their coverage of the protests 12 Feb 2021 Protests in Myanmar 2021. Photo: Ninjastrikers/CC BY-SA 4.0 Journalists are facing increasingly difficult circumstances in reporting what is happening as Myanmar’s new regime attempts to tighten its grip on the power it took from a democratically elected government at the start of the month. Myo Min Htike, former secretary of the Myanmar Journalist Association, has told Index that journalists are being targeted across the country, particularly if they have covered protests against the coup. In Mandalay, two journalists were pursued by special branch after they had covered a pro-democracy demonstration, he said.