Ross Dunkley, the Australian editor-in-chief and co-owner of the English daily newspaper Myanmar Times, has been held in Burma on immigration and drug possession charges. His arrest comes at a time when he is engaged in a dispute about the future of the newspaper with his Burmese partner, Tin Tun Oo.
Maung Maung Zeya, a senior photo and video journalist for the Democratic Voice of Burma has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. He had led a team of journalists who smuggled video footage out of Burma until he was arrested last April photographing the aftermath of bomb attacks in Rangoon. His sentencing comes two months after his son, Sithu Zeya, was imprisoned for eight years on similar charges, and just days after blogger, Kaung Myat Hlaing, had 10 years added to his original two-year prison sentence.
The Burmese pro-democracy activist has been freed from house arrest. Here, we republish an article first published in Index on Censorship in 1993
PLUS: Read Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech “Freedom From Fear”, here
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The latest appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest has been rejected by Burma’s top court. There is still hope that she will be released because her current detention order expires this weekend. Her youngest son has been permitted a visa to enter the country, leading to speculation he will be allowed to see his mother for the first time in 10 years. However, Suu Kyi’s lawyer has said she would not accept a release with conditions set to inhibit her political activity.