Mizzima News

Journalist Ah Hla Lay Thuzar was arrested in September 2021 and charged with “causing fear, spreading false news and agitating crimes against a government employee”.

Independent media groups said the representative of the military government did not report about the suppression of media freedom in the country.

Film maker Ma Aeint was sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for allegedly giving money to an organization that opposes the February 2021 coup in Myanmar.

Mizzima clarified that the seven Myanmar citizens who had taken refuge in the India-Myanmar border are not “untraceable” as reported in some news reports. They are employees of Mizzima who fled to India after the 2021 coup and were given protection by the UNHCR.

Under international legal standards, journalists should be allowed to have the freedom to do their work. Yet the changes brought in by the Myanmar junta directly target media that the regime considers an enemy.

Mizzima News notes that citizen journalists continue to play an important role in helping publicize what is happening in Myanmar, despite the risks they are facing for reporting about the atrocities of the military government.

More than 100 local civil society organizations are asking members states and observers of the UN Human Rights Council to probe the atrocities of the military government in Myanmar.

Thousands of political prisoners, including journalists, were released by Myanmar’s military government on the occasion of the Thadingyut festival. Below is the statement of Mizzima News.