Three journalists — two of them foreign — and their driver remain imprisoned in Naypyidaw after their second hearing on Thursday in a case that some are billing as the latest test for press freedom in Burma.

Turkey’s state broadcaster said a team of journalists filming a documentary in Burma had told the government of their plans before they were detained for attempting to fly a drone near the country’s parliamentary complex.

Three journalists arrested in Shan State are likely to be handed over to police “soon,” a senior government official says, as questions mount as to why the men were detained and pressure grows on the military to reveal their whereabouts nearly 48 hours after they were taken into custody.

Media freedom advocates have lashed out at the latest 66(d) suit filed by the Tatmadaw against a satirical columnist.

Burma rose 12 places in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index, amid larger global trends over the past year indicating “that media freedom is under threat now more than ever,” according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which has compiled the index annually since 2002.

The father of slain news publisher Wai Yan Heinn has questioned a police statement suggesting his son was murdered earlier this month by a lone killer in a crime of passion linked to an extramarital affair.