HEADLINE: WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY | On World Press Freedom Day, Myanmar journalists continue their struggle to survive
A man holds a newspaper in yangon in 2016, during Myanmar’s brief era of relative press freedom under a democratically elected government (Romeo Gacad / AFP)
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The 31st World Press Freedom Day conference will be hosted by Chile and UNESCO in Santiago.
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FREE ASEAN – FREE CAMBODIA – FREE MYANMAR – FREE Aung San Suu Kyi.
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In a country that is among the world’s worst for press freedom, many remain committed to speaking truth to power
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Three years after the coup in Myanmar, the country’s journalists are marking yet another World Press Freedom Day with no end in sight to their struggle just to survive.
As of March of this year, a total of 208 Myanmar journalists have been imprisoned for doing their jobs, according to Athan, a local media monitoring group. Of these, eight have died in detention.
Many others have been forced to flee the country, go into hiding, or leave their profession altogether to avoid facing arrest by a junta that sees journalists as a threat to its rule.
Memento Maxima Digital MarketingMyanmar Now spoke to several journalists recently about how the hostile environment created by one of the world’s most repressive regimes has impacted them.
Tortured for being a journalist
