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Questions raised over arrest of journalists
Several prominent voices claim the arrest of the three Burmese reporters was unlawful or unconstitutional.
Calls for answers grow as detained reporters’ fates remain unknown
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.
Defamation case against The Voice satirist dropped, bail denied for chief editor
The author of a satirical article that appeared in a March edition of The Voice Daily was released from police custody on Friday after a court dropped an online defamation charge that had been brought against him, though the newspaper’s editor-in-chief will still stand trial over the offending piece.
259 prisoners freed in presidential amnesty ahead of peace summit
Nearly 260 prisoners were released in a presidential amnesty on Wednesday to celebrate the opening of the Union Peace Conference being held in Burma’s capital Naypyidaw this week.
Military files defamation suit against The Voice chief editor, satirist
The Voice Daily’s editor-in-chief and the newspaper’s regular satire columnist are being sued by the military under article 66(d) of Burma’s Telecommunications Law, a defamation clause, over an article published in March.
Poster of ‘fake news’ on NLD official jailed 6 months on defamation charge
Phoe Htaung, who was on trial for using the official seal of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in a Facebook post that erroneously declared the resignation of senior party official Win Htein, was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday under the Telecommunications Law’s controversial article 66(d).
