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Poll without witnesses – Japanese journalist, two Burmese reporters arrested
Burma Media Association and Reporters without Border
2010-11-10 09:30
 

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association call for the release of Japanese journalist Toru Yamaji, the head of the Tokyo-based news agency APF, who was arrested in the eastern border town of Myawaddy on 7 Nov after apparently entering from Thailand. He was reportedly taken by helicopter to the Burmese capital, Naypyitaw, for questioning by military intelligence.

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BURMA: Another video reporter gets long jail sentence
Reporters Without Borders, Burma Media Association
2010-01-30 12:32
 

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association condemn the 13-year jail sentence passed on journalist Ngwe Soe Lin by a special court inside Rangoon’s Insein prison on 27 January. He is the second video reporter for a Burmese exile radio and TV station based in Oslo to be convicted in the space of a month.

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Another blogger arrested for posts about Saffron Revolution
Reporters Without Borders
2009-11-14 17:25
 

A young blogger, Win Zaw Naing, is facing a possibly 15-year jail sentence just for posting pictures and reports about the September 2007 protests, known as the Saffron Revolution. Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association call for his release and the release of all the other detained bloggers.

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