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    Tagged: free speech

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    ‘Free’ speech still comes at a price in Burma: HRW

    Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Burma’s Parliament to amend or repeal laws that continue to be used to jail activists and average citizens for peacefully exercising their right to free speech.

    Human Rights Lead Story News

    Facebook insult case set to go to trial

    The case against Hla Phone, who is accused of posting insulting images of Burma’s military chief and former president Thein Sein on Facebook, is based on a controversial telecommunications law.

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    HRW to govt: Drop laws curbing free speech

    A new report by Human Rights Watch notes that lawsuits and arrests aimed at curtailing free speech have continued under the NLD government.

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    Culture Lead Story News

    Film ban a blow to ‘dignity’, says festival organiser

    “Our mission is a society of dignity, but I feel that our mission has failed,” said Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who established the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival in 2013.

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    Htin Lin Oo charges upheld, trial imminent

    Defamation charges stemming from a speech last year will see the former NLD information officer in court later this month.

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    Human Rights film festival concludes, but not without controversy

    The Human Rights Human Dignity Film Festival ended on Thursday following a controversial move by organisers to cancel the screening of one film due to online intimidation.

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    DVB Debate: Freedom to report

    Panellists on DVB Debate discuss whether the government is trying to remain in control of the press by invoking current laws that actually stop journalists from doing their jobs.

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    Exercise free speech, not hate speech: Aung Myo Min

    DVB’s Aye Nai spoke with Aung Myo Min, the director of Equality Myanmar and co-founder of the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma, about “free speech” and “hate speech”, and how to solve the spread of hatred by promoting peaceful understanding among different races and religions.

    News Politics

    MP calls on media to employ ‘polite usage’ when criticising parliament

    Parliamentarian Thein Nyunt called on journalists to use “polite usage” and have a “positive attitude” when criticising the country’s parliament

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    ‘Groundbreaking’ literary festival

    Burma launched its first international literary festival by Rangoon’s Inya lake over the weekend. The British ambassador to Burma, Andrew Heyn, said the event was ‘groundbreaking’ as international and local[…]

    Media News

    Mining ministry drops defamation lawsuit

    Burma’s ministry of mining has agreed to drop its defamation lawsuit against the Voice Weekly news journal, which was launched after they printed corruption allegations against the agency in March last year

    Media News

    Govt to allow daily newspapers from April

    Burma will allow private newspapers to publish daily from April 1, ending a decades-old ban in a further easing of the country’s draconian censorship regime, the government said Friday

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    Lawyers protest privatisation of historic courthouse

    Dozens of lawyers protested this morning in front of a courthouse in downtown Rangoon against government’s plan to privatise historical buildings

    Media News

    Renowned Burma observer receives visa after decades on blacklist

    Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner, who has been covering Burma for more than two decades, is set to visit Rangoon after being blacklisted by the government since the 1980s

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    A call for peace

    [scrollGallery id=28 – insert relevant ID number for gallery here] Hundreds of people, including farmers and members from various ethnic groups, participated in a march against civil war on 21[…]

    News Politics

    Police to charge peace activists following Friday’s rallies

    The activists who organised the International Day of Peace demonstrations in Rangoon and several other towns last Friday have been charged for protesting without a permit

    News Politics

    Performance artist detained in Mandalay

    Performance artist Sue Myint Thein was briefly detained after walking around Mandalay wrapped in blue duct tape ahead of International Peace Day, which falls on Friday

    Media News

    Court hits editor, publisher with defamation charge

    The chief editor and publisher of a Burmese newspaper were charged with defamation Thursday for reporting a graft probe into a government ministry, in a move likely to raise fears over media reforms

    News Politics

    Gov’t prevents journalists, academics from entering Burma

    Despite a government announcement that more than 2,000 names were removed from the country’s blacklist, a number of journalists and academics are still unable to secure Burmese visas

    Media News

    Media committee calls for better protection of press

    The indefinite suspension of two prominent news journals, The Voice and Envoy, has journalists calling for better protection of Burma’s fourth estate

    Media News

    Fourth estate to be censor-free by June

    The Burmese government’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Division announced last week that the government would not longer be censoring literary works

    Media News

    Journal stands by controversial interview

    The editors at Hot News journal are standing by a controversial interview with Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Myint Hlaing after the official claimed his remarks were made off the record

    Media News

    Journalists celebrate Press Freedom Day with events, forums

    For the first time in its history, journalists and government officials in Rangoon and Mandalay observed World Press Freedom Day

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    Thangyat is back

    Thangyat performances, a traditional music that accompanies New Year’s Thingyan Water Festival, is now legal in Burma. The historic art is a cornerstone in the country’s New Year celebrations, where[…]

    Analysis

    Media freedom in Burma still limited

    While the Burmese government have made nascent moves to prevent censorship, media watchdog groups claim stronger policies are needed to protect free speech

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