Articles by Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
As junta cuts off communications, refugees crucial source of information, says SEAPA
(SEAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 2 October 2007 SEAPA press release: Refugees crucial to providing eyewitness accounts as junta cuts off communications A looming humanitarian crisis in Burma is being exacerbated by the junta’s determination to cut all news and information flowing out of the country. At a forum on 1 October 2007 in […]
Four IFEX members call for day of action to show solidarity and condemn human rights violations
(AJI, ARTICLE 19/RSF/SEAPA/IFEX) – The following is a joint statement by four IFEX members and the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights: DAY OF ACTION FOR THE PEOPLE OF MYANMAR ARTICLE 19, South East Press Alliance (SEAPA), the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights, the Alliance of Independent Journalists of Indonesia (AJI) and Reporters without Borders (RSF) […]
Internet access reportedly “cut” in Burma; journalist beaten, arrested
(SEAPA/IFEX) – The main link to the Internet in Burma — the main medium that has allowed the world access to images and reports about the violence and political crisis gripping the country — has been severely compromised, wire news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) is reporting. On the afternoon of 28 September, 2007, the […]
Japanese photojournalist reportedly killed by military as junta violently cracks down on protestors
(SEAPA/IFEX) – A foreign journalist was reportedly killed by military troops on 27 September 2007, the second day of the Burmese junta’s crackdown on protesters in Rangoon, according to exile-run news agency Mizzima. The New Delhi based media group said the Burmese Foreign Ministry has confirmed that a Japanese photojournalist was killed. However, his name […]
Junta orders journalists, actors to refrain from protesting, speaking out
(SEAPA/IFEX) – As thousands of ordinary citizens join some 3,000 monks and nuns in the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay on their seventh day of peaceful marches on 24 September 2007, the junta is warning the press from joining the protests, worried that journalists, too, may be emboldened enough by the deeply moving spectacle to […]
Authorities violently shut down road show on electoral reform, restrict media coverage of the incident
(SEAPA/IFEX) – On 8 September 2007, in the northeastern state of Terengganu, Malaysian police disrupted a road show calling for electoral reform in the country, resulting in a riot that saw two people seriously wounded after they were shot by a police officer. The police rejected the permit application for the outdoor talk one day […]
CAPSULE REPORT: A year after coup, press freedom remains compromised and vulnerable
(SEAPA/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of a 17 September 2007 SEAPA report: A year after Thai coup, press freedom remains compromised and vulnerable One year after the coup in Thailand, a new Constitution is in place, elections are on the horizon and Thais are looking forward to normalising the overall political climate […]
Junta taps journalists’ telephones, cuts off their mobile connections
(SEAPA/IFEX) – The Burmese junta has been tapping land lines and cutting off mobile phone connections of journalists and democracy activists in the highly restrictive and secretive country since 8 August 2007, according to information only recently leaked by a source of the global organisation of exiled journalists, Burma Media Association (BMA). It would appear […]