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    10 months ago

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    BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has arrested two journalists with a local online news service, their editor said Wednesday, in its latest crackdown on media freedom since seizing power nearly three years ago.

    The computers and mobile phones of the reporters and their family members were confiscated by police, and the journalists are being held in an interrogation camp, the editor said.

    Dawei Watch’s chief editor said a total of five reporters and a columnist have been arrested since the army began cracking down on independent media after seizing power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.

    Myanmar is one of the world’s biggest jailers of journalists, second only to China, according to Reporters Without Borders, and it is ranked near the bottom of the watchdog group’s Press Freedom Index at 173rd out of 180 countries this year.

    Most of the detained journalists were charged with incitement for allegedly causing fear, spreading false news or agitating against a government employee.

    Most media outlets, including Dawei Watch, now operate semi-clandestinely, publishing online as staff members try to avoid arrest.


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