An imprisoned Australian newspaper publisher who appeared in court in Burma was told he would remain in jail until at least March 3, when he was scheduled to appear in court again, according to new.com.au. Ross Dunkley, editor of the Rangoon-based English-language weekly The Myanmar Times, was arrested on February 10 for allegedly violating Burmese immigration codes. The case attracted significant...
Authorities have detained Ross Dunkley, editor-in-chief and chief executive officer of the Myanmar Times newspaper, on immigration-related charges in Burma, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Dunkley, an Australian citizen, was arrested on February 10 on returning to Burma from a business trip in Japan, according to a statement released by his publishing group. He is being...
Yet another Burmese journalist has been given a long jail term, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and Burma Media Association (BMA). A Rangoon court sentenced video reporter Maung Maung Zeya on February 4 to five years in prison for two violations of the Unlawful Association Act, one year under the Immigration Act (for crossing the border illegally) and...
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and the Burma Media Association have hailed the release of Aung Kyaw San, the editor of the now closed magazine Myanmar Tribune, from Taunggyi prison, in the eastern state of Shan, after his sentence was reduced from eight to two years. Arrested on June 15, 2008 along with 16 other people near the city of Bogale for helping to bury the bodies of Cyclone Nargis...
Burmese state censors are clamping down on the publication of feature stories or interviews with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on orders from the government, the editor of People's Era journal said recently, according to Mizzima News. Editors of People's Era and the Venus journal met with Suu Kyi on December 21. On December 17, People's Era submitted the transcript of its interview with Suu...
Sithu Zeya, a 21-year-old Burmese photographer who was arrested on April 16 for taking photos of the damage caused by a bomb in a Rangoon park, has been sentenced to eight years in prison. His father, Maung Maung Zeya, a journalist and painter who was arrested a day later, is to be tried in January, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Both worked for the...
Burma must immediately release Toru Yamaji, a reporter with Tokyo-based APF news agency, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) hasdemanded. Yamaji, 49, was detained Sunday in Myawaddy, on the country's eastern border with Thailand while trying to cover the country's first elections in two decades, according to international media reports, which quoted Japan's embassy in Rangoon...
A 13-year prison sentence has been handed down last week by a Burmese court to Nyi Nyi Tun, editor of the Kandarawaddy news publication, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On October 13, the Seikkan Township court attached to Rangoon's Insein Prison found the journalist guilty of "crimes against the state." He was convicted of violating the Unlawful...
Burmese exiled media groups are calling for international support in ending cyber attacks that have crippled two news websites over the past week. The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) and The Irrawaddy magazine, which provide independent coverage of current affairs in Burma, have been the target of intense attacks which it is believed originate from the Burmese government. The two websites are...
The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by cyber-attacks against three exile-run Burma news outlets, Irrawaddy, Mizzima News, and the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have shut Irrawaddy's main website while temporarily blocking access to Mizzima's site. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the Internet-based...
