Myanmar military arrests 2 journalists from friendly media
Myanmar’s military government, which has cracked down hard on independent media since seizing power last year, has arrested two journalists working for outlets sympathetic to it
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Myanmar’s military government, which has cracked down hard on independent media since seizing power last year, has arrested two journalists working for outlets sympathetic to it
Journalists were arrested last week right after attending Information Ministry news conference in Naypyitaw, says reporter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared he could also be arrested
BANGKOK (AP) -- Myanmar's military government, which has cracked down on independent media since seizing power last year, has arrested two journalists
Myanmar’s embattled press faces a military coup Yesterday—after a decade of democratic transition, five years of elected government, and several days of threats, apparent walkbacks, and rumors—Myanmar’s military executed a coup and returned to power. Myawaddy TV, a station owned by the military, announced that Min Aung Hlaing—the army’s commander in chief, who faces war-crimes allegations linked to the persecution of the country’s Muslim Rohingya population—would take power. (The announcement couched the coup as a constitutional “state of emergency,” justified by “terrib...