Nay Myo Lin, a reporter for the BBC Burmese-language service, denounced his three-month prison sentence as unfair after he was found guilty of assaulting a police officer during protests last year.
The Rangoon Region Court has rejected an appeal for four Bi-Midday Sun newspaper employees currently serving a two year imprisonment sentence.
Lead Story Media News Parliament
Reporters are to be readmitted to press gallery following a ban due to pictures of MPs sleeping through debates appearing on social media.
Lead Story Media News Parliament
The Union Parliament denies reporters access after photos of MPs falling asleep during parliamentary debates went viral on social media.
Lead Story News Pegu Division Protest
Nyan Lin Tun of Myanmar Post and Phyo Aung Myint of Reporter are released from Tharawaddy prison, as are nine students detained after crackdown in Letpadan.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Media News
Twenty-one media workers in Irrawaddy Division staged a mass prayer in the capital Bassein [Pathein] as a symbolic protest.
Lead Story Media News Politics
Lawyers for the executive and reporters of the now-shuttered Unity Weekly news journal requested that their clients be charged under the new Media Law instead of being accused of leaking state secrets.
The most high-profile of all the current cases against journalists in Burma involves the CEO and four reporters from Unity Weekly who have been charged with violating the State Secrets Act after reporting on a munitions factory in Magwe.
Mandalay police deny any connection to men in civilian clothing, alleged to be informers, who attacked reporters covering a protest on Monday right in front of law enforcement officials who looked on without interfering.
Aug 29, 2007 (DVB)
