Myanmar authorities sentence Kanbawza Tai News journalists to 3 years in prison
Bangkok, December 13, 2021 – Myanmar authorities should release three Kanbawza Tai News journalists recently sentenced to prison for their work and drop all charges against them, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On December 10, a court at the Nyaung Shwe Taung Lay Lone Prison, in Shan state, sentenced editor Nang Nang Tai,…
Bangladeshi journalist Golam Sarwar attacked, harassed following 2020 abduction
On October 29, 2020, Golam Sarwar, the then publisher and executive editor of the privately owned news website ctnewsbd.com, was abducted in Kazir Dewri, a neighborhood in the southeastern Bangladeshi city of Chittagong, according to multiple news reports and Sarwar, who spoke with CPJ via messaging app. An unidentified man approached the journalist from behind,…
‘A disturbing sign for press freedom’: A record 293 journalists imprisoned worldwide, the worst in 30 years
There are a record 293 journalists jailed worldwide for doing their job, according to CPJ’s 2021 prison census, the worst number CPJ has recorded since we began keeping track in 1992. Meanwhile, killings of journalists also continue to persist, with 24 documented by CPJ so far this year. The reasons for the relentless climb in…
Qaraman Shukri
Iraqi Kurdish photojournalist Qaraman Shukri is serving a seven-year prison term after being convicted on anti-state charges during a closed trial in the northwestern Kurdish city of Duhok without a defense lawyer present. He was arrested in January 2021. At about 8:30 a.m. on January 27, 2021, Asayish security forces affiliated with Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling…
Win Naing Oo
Myanmar journalist Win Naing Oo, chief reporter with the local Channel Mandalay TV news station, is serving a five-year sentence for terrorism, a charge Myanmar’s military regime has used against the press to stifle independent news reporting since staging a democracy-suspending coup in 2021. Win Naing Oo was arrested with his wife on August 31,…
Nang Nang Tai (Nway Nway Hlaing)
Kanbawza Tai News editor Nang Nang Tai, also known as Nway Nway Hlaing, was arrested on March 24, 2021, at her home in Hopong, Shan State, after covering protests against the military’s February 1, 2021, democracy-suspending coup, according to news reports and Zay Tai, the news website’s chief editor, who communicated with CPJ by messaging…
Aung Ko Latt
Freelance videographer Aung Ko Latt, who has contributed to Democratic Voice of Burma and founded the Myanmar Citizen News Agency, was arrested on March 21, 2021, in the capital Naypyidaw, according to a report by the U.S. Congress-funded Voice of America and a post on the Detained Journalists of Myanmar private Facebook group, which CPJ…
Mya Wun Yan (Hla Yin Win)
Myanmar journalist Mya Wun Yan, editor-in-chief of the local Than Lwin Thway Chinn Journal, was arrested on July 20, 2021, at her home in Taunggyi, Shan state. She is being held in pre-trial detention on anti-state charges at the city’s Taung Lay Lone Prison. About 30 security officers raided her residence at around 7 p.m….
Nann Win Yi
Kanbawza Tai News reporter Nann Win Yi was arrested on March 24, 2021, at her home in Hopong, Shan State, after covering protests against the military’s democracy-suspending coup, according to news reports and Kanbawza Tai News chief editor Zay Tai, who communicated with CPJ by messaging app. Nann Win Yi is being held at Taunggyi’s…