“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…
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Amnesty report demands new laws for a new government
Amnesty International calls on the incoming NLD-led government to break the “vicious cycle of political arrests” with new laws.
Musicians no longer required to submit songs to censors
The Myanmar Music Association’s general secretary has said that artists are now allowed to publish their music without prior approval from the state censor board
DVB journalist questioned after being sued by civil servant
A Magway-based DVB reporter was interrogated by the police this weekend after he was reportedly sued by a divisional education officer for disturbing a civil servant and trespassing on government…
Burma abolishes pre-censorship, but forbids criticism of state
The Burmese government announced on Monday that it has abolished pre-censorship of its media, but local papers say they have been issued a strict set of guidelines that forbid them…
Government bans writers for supporting protests
Oct 18, 2007 (DVB), The information ministry’s censor board has issued a ban order on over 20 writers and cartoonists who supported last month’s protests. An editor of a weekly…