**Updates IFEX alerts of 13 August and 17 September 1998 and 2 May 1997** (RSF/IFEX) – On 30 March 2000, RSF put a previously unpublished short story by Daw San San Nweh, winner of the 1999 Reporters Sans Frontières – Fondation de France prize, on its web site (www.rsf.fr). The journalist and author, who is […]
**Updates IFEX alerts of 13 August and 17 September 1998 and 2 May 1997**
(RSF/IFEX) – On 30 March 2000, RSF put a previously unpublished short story by Daw San San Nweh, winner of the 1999 Reporters Sans Frontières – Fondation de France prize, on its web site (www.rsf.fr). The journalist and author, who is close to Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi (see IFEX alert of 11 August 1998), was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for “publishing information harmful to the state” in 1994, and is being held at Insein jail, Rangoon. In the short story, “Children who play in back alleyways”, San San Nweh takes a fictional approach to condemning repression by the Burmese junta.
