Update on Journalism and Media Safety in Myanmar
By the end of March 2025 – just as the country marked the fourth anniversary of the military coup of February 2021 – 60 journalists remained in jail.
Analysis of Counter-Terrorism Law and Its Impact on Press Freedom
In the interim, the 1994 United Nations Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism, which was adopted by General Assembly resolution 49/60, designates crimes committed by an organization or an…
Violation of Media Freedom in February 2025
In February 2025, 2 cases of lawless arrest of a journalist with the prosecution and brutal persecution of a convicted photojournalist in prison were found
Update on Journalism and Media Safety in Myanmar
Update on Journalism and Media Safety in Myanmar Highlights A former journalist, who has been in detention since late December 2023, was sentencedto three years in prison for incitement in…
Violation of Media Freedom in February 2024
In February 2021, there were two specific cases of violation of media freedom–one deceased and one arrested case in the previous month–reflecting the continuous pattern of restriction on Myanmar’s independent…
Update on Journalism and Media in Myanmar (July-Sep)
Journalists continue to work in dangerous situations in Myanmar’s continuing conflict, where they face challenges in physical and digital safety, gathering news, and economic security. As of end-September 2023, 59…
1000 days have passed
The Myanmar military coup d’état, has been 1,000 days on October 28, 2023. The military oppressively committed arbitrary arrests and deliberate killings of the Myanmar people in all forms of…
Myanmar’s Citizen Journalists
What are Citizen Journalists?What is currently causing the CJs to struggle?This video describes the struggles of Citizen Journalists while performing their duties during the revolution. Watch the video here: https://cinemata.org/view?m=19VLl3iZs
Update on Journalism and Media in Myanmar
Highlights For the first half (Jan-Jun) of 2023, Myanmar’s military junta continued the heavy restriction onmedia freedom by arresting journalists and revoking media licenses. Specifically, four journalists,including an editor and…
Repeated Dark Age of News Media
A decade after Myanmar’s independence, the military administration, resulting from the first military take-over in 1958, banned privately owned Lu-Du (the People) and Kyae-Mone (the Mirror) newspapers for criticizing them…