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Wine Maw, editor of the Myanmar Herald news website, was arrested on March 24, 2021, while reporting on a protest against Myanmar’s military junta in Kyaukmyaung Township of Yangon, according to a report by Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) and a database maintained by the rights group Assistance Association of Political Prisoners.  Wine Maw is being held at Insein Prison on…

Zayar Times reporter De Myat Nyein was arrested by military authorities who arrived in three cars in the morning of June 26, 2021, in Sagaing City, Sagaing Region, according to a post on the Detained Journalists of Myanmar private Facebook group, which CPJ reviewed, and a database maintained by the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners,…

Myanmar reporter Than Htike Aung was arrested on March 19, 2021, in front of the Dekkhina District court in Naypyidaw. He is currently being held in pre-trial detention. He was arrested while reporting on a scheduled hearing for a detained political leader that he was covering for the Mizzima news website, according to news reports…

Freelance reporter Naung Yoe, who has contributed to Kachin News Group, was arrested on April 9, 2021, while covering a protest against the military’s February 1 democracy-suspending coup in Hpakant town, Kachin State, according to news reports, a database maintained by the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, and Kachin News Group editor Sam Naw, who communicated with CPJ via messaging app.  Naung Yoe…

Kanbawza Tai News publisher Tin Aung Kyaw was arrested on March 24, 2021, at his home in Hopong, Shan State, after covering protests against the military’s February 1, 2021, democracy-suspending coup, according to the news reports and Kanbawza Tai News chief editor Zay Tai, who communicated with CPJ by messaging app. Tin Aung Kyaw is…

Police in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state arrested Luke Binniyat, a journalist who contributes to the U.S.-based outlet The Epoch Times, in November 2021, in response to a complaint filed by a government minister. He was denied bail and remained in pretrial detention as of December 1.  Binniyat is a freelance journalist and a spokesperson for…

Police detained journalist Chilassy Bofumbo while he covered a protest in Mbandaka, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in November 2021. He is being held in pretrial detention for a variety of anti-state charges. Bofumbo is the editor-in-chief of the local broadcaster Radio Télévision Sarah, and is also a correspondent for the…

Central African Republic authorities arrested journalist Landry Ulrich Nguéma Ngokpélé in October 2021. He is accused of criminal association, defamation, insult, slanderous denunciation, and complicity with the rebel group Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC). Nguéma Ngokpélé is the publication director of the privately owned Le Quotidien de Bangui newspaper, which reports extensively on local…

Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, who reports on the country’s ethnic Polish minority, has been serving an eight-year sentence since being convicted of “inciting hatred” and “calling for sanctions aimed at harming national security” in February 2023. Authorities detained Poczobut in March 2021.  Poczobut is a political commentator and producer of Nad Niemnem, a television program focused on…

Belarusian journalist Maryna Zolatava, chief editor of independent news website Tut.by, has been serving a 12-year sentence since being convicted in March 2023 on charges of incitement to hatred and distributing materials calling for actions aimed at harming national security. Authorities detained Zolatava along with several other Tut.by employees and journalists in May 2021, as part of a…