Dozens of Myanmar Migrant Workers in Mae Sot Detained by Thai Police
Some 200,000 Myanmar people live in the Thai border town and labor activists have warned them to exercise caution as local authorities conduct checks.
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Some 200,000 Myanmar people live in the Thai border town and labor activists have warned them to exercise caution as local authorities conduct checks.
Myanmar has become one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, with 42 reporters behind bars, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ. That puts Myanmar in third place behind only Iran (62) and China (43), according to CPJ’s annual report on attacks against the press in 2022. …
The Committee to Protect Journalists described the jailing, sentencing, and granting early release to journalists in Myanmar as a "cruel carousel" and a "form of psychological warfare aimed at breaking the will of independent media outlets."
In his weekly speech to PDFs on Wednesday, the NUG Minister of Defence stated that it was more important not to take the wrong steps in the revolution rather than how fast or slowly they take the steps.
After Ah Hla Lay Thuzar, a Burmese journalist better known by the pseudonym of Ma Thuzar, received a two-year jail sentence today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on UN officials tasked with monitoring Myanmar to take tougher action to get the leaders of its military junta to stop normalising the terror they have been imposing on media personnel.