Mizzima News

34 IFEX members are supporting RSF’s initiative to create the position of a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Safety of Journalists.

Mizzima News editor-in-chief Soe Myint discussed challenges facing the Burmese media as the country transitions to democracy and his hopes for the future during the IPI World Congress.

Civil society groups express concern over the potential for overbroad anti-extremism practices to limit free expression

Myanmar’s authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a peace activist and a young woman who have been arrested for mocking the country’s army chief on Facebook, Amnesty International said in a statement on 15 October.

Myanmar-born American writer Wendy Law-Yone spoke to Mizzima Weekly about her ambivalence towards copyright piracy and the steps she is taking to prevent it.

Burmese security police and civilians wearing red armbands attacked activists and students protesting outside Yangon City Hall and arrested eight in a surge in tension over spreading student rallies calling for education reform.

Reporters in Burma’s ethnic minority regions often endure extortion and harassment. Women journalists, who are heavily outnumbered by their male counterparts in rural areas, face additional challenges in their reporting.

Prominent Burma-watcher, journalist and author Bertil Lintner was in Yangon for a weeklong journalism workshop. The formerly blacklisted writer was interviewed by Mizzima about recent political developments and the year ahead.