Articles by Mizzima News
Thirty-seven IFEX members express concern about deterioration of free expression
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway, at the IFEX General Meeting. Thirty-seven IFEX members signed on to a statement calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to address the deterioration in press freedom.
Newspaper given one-week suspension by censor board
Though the economic impact of the one-week suspension is not too high, the impact on the marketing for this newly published newspaper will be.
Diplomats and journalists allowed access to Suu Kyi trial
In a surprise move, on 20 May 2009 Burmese authorities allowed 30 foreign diplomats and ten journalists into the special court in Insein Prison, prompting defense counsels of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to label the proceedings a “half-open court”.
Two American journalists deported
(Mizzima/IFEX) – New Delhi, 12 May 2009 – Burma’s military government has deported two American journalists who were teaching feature writing and photography to students in the country’s second largest city of Mandalay. Jerry Redfern and Karen Coates said they were arrested on the evening of 6 May 2009 in their hotel room in Mandalay […]
Censorship board limits reporting on one-year anniversary of Cyclone Nargis
(Mizzima/IFEX) – The Burmese military junta’s censorship board has imposed restrictions in the coverage of the anniversary of the deadly Cyclone Nargis, sources in local journals in Rangoon said. While local papers are being allowed to carry reports and pictures of the situation a year after the cyclone, the censorship board has imposed restrictions. “We […]
State newspaper’s proposed ban on satellite dishes seen as sign of increased suppression of media freedom
(Mizzima/IFEX) – In what seems to be a “warning”, Burma’s state-run newspaper carried an article on 24 April 2009 saying that satellite channels, which enable people to watch international news and entertainment, are being manipulated by big nations and should be banned in Burma. The writer, who identified himself as Ko Gyi, wrote in the […]
Censors prohibit media from reporting on murder case
(Mizzima/IFEX) – Local weekly journals in Rangoon said they have been prohibited from publishing follow-up news on a murder case that took place in Botahtaung Township in Rangoon in early April 2009. Despite Botahtaung police station and Rangoon division police confirming the arrest of an individual accused of killing a husband and wife, they have […]
Journalists alarmed as censors go digital
(Mizzima/IFEX) – The media in Burma are alarmed at the plan of the junta’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Board – better known as the Censors’ Board – to censor the digital copies of articles to be published in Burmese journals and magazines. Burmese journalists said they see this new system as impractical as the Internet […]