Reuters reporters trial: ‘Hostile’ police witness held incommunicado
Burmese human rights lawyer Robert San Aung described Moe Yan Naing’s incarceration for 129 days without family visits as “not in line with the law”.
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Burma listed in Top 10 for jailing journalists
“With ten journalists now languishing behind bars, proponents of the country’s supposed democratic progress should wake up and take notice of the authoritarian reality that still governs the country.”
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Unity journalists’ sentences reduced on appeal
Magwe Regional Court reduces the sentences on five members of the now defunct Unity Journal from ten to seven years, following an appeal.
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Unity staff divided as verdict nears
The trial of five Unity Weekly employees continued on Monday in Pakokku, Magwe Division. The defendants are now preparing additional witnesses and expect a verdict within one month.
Journalists remain in prison
Five media workers are still being held inside Burma’s notorious Pakokku and Insein prisons for reporting on an alleged chemical weapons facility in Magwe Division’s Pauk Township.
