(CCPJ/IFEX) – On 1 September 1998, Canadian journalist Doug Earl and two other foreign reporters were picked up by security police after interviewing Aung San Suu Kyi at the home of another opposition member. Reached in Bangkok, Thailand by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio, Earl said that when he and the others finished the interview, […]
(CCPJ/IFEX) – On 1 September 1998, Canadian journalist Doug Earl and two
other foreign reporters were picked up by security police after
interviewing Aung San Suu Kyi at the home of another opposition member.
Reached in Bangkok, Thailand by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
radio, Earl said that when he and the others finished the interview, Suu
Kyi left. About 30 minutes later, the journalists left. They had walked
about 100 meters up the road in the residential district, when they came
upon a gauntlet of military intelligence officers with still and video
cameras. The officers photographed and filmed the journalists as they
continued walking. Before the journalists could catch a taxi, a car
carrying plainclothes military intelligence officers and immigration
officials came up from behind and pulled in front of them. Officials
demanded the journalists’ passports and put them in the car. They were
taken to the airport, interrogated for seven hours and held
incommunicado. Their films and tapes were seized, before they were put on
the next flight to Bangkok.
