The assault on Myanmar’s press freedom

LATINA MEDIA

Online News Editor
By Eric San Juan
May 3, 2021

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Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, May 3 (EFE).- The military coup in Myanmar has reversed a decade of progress in press freedom in the Southeast Asian nation, where at least 43 reporters are held in jail, dozens of others are working clandestinely and local outlets are struggling to stay operational.

17 embassies call for Myanmar journalists’ release, press freedom

LATINA MEDIA

Online News Editor

May 3, 2021

Bangkok, May 3 (EFE).- The embassies of the United States, the European Union and 15 other countries in Myanmar demanded Monday the restitution of press freedom in the country and the immediate release of journalists arrested since the military coup in early February.

“We call for the immediate release of all media workers, the establishment of freedom of information and communication and for the end of Internet restrictions in Myanmar,” the diplomatic missions said a statement, which was also signed by the embassies of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.

Journalist killings, arrests and assaults climb worldwide as authoritarianism spreads

ASIAN CORRESPONDENT
June 01-2019

Burma, nudged by the conscience of the world, recently released two Reuters journalists imprisoned for more than 500 days – good news in what otherwise has been a dismal period for media freedom.

The 2019 Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders shows how hatred of journalists has degenerated into violence and created “an intense climate of fear” worldwide.