Committee to Protect Journalists

Htet Htet Khine is seen filming in an IDP camp in Kachin State. Photo BBC Media Action
30 September 2022
On 27 September, Htet Htet Khine, a freelance BBC Media Action reporter, was sentenced to...
Police patrol on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 19, 2022. Photographer Aye Kyaw reportedly died in Myanmar military custody. Photo: AFP
12 August 2022
The Myanmar authorities must immediately disclose the status of photojournalist Aye Kyaw...
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10 December 2021
The number of journalists jailed around the world hit a new record in 2021, according to...
This photo taken and received courtesy of an anonymous source via Facebook on April 29, 2021 shows protesters marching with banners as they take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Insein township in Yangon. Photo: AFP
30 April 2021
Myanmar’s military junta must immediately and unconditionally release all of the...
Editor Khaing Mrat Kyaw. Photo: DMG
14 May 2020
Myanmar authorities should drop the terrorism charges against editor Khaing Mrat Kyaw and...
A woman browsing the internet at an internet cafe in Yangon. Photo: AFP
03 April 2020
Myanmar should lift its order to block news websites and cease all efforts to censor the...
(File) Swe Win (C), the editor of Myanmar Now, is escorted to a court by police in Mandalay on July 31, 2017 a day after he was detained by police at Yangon airport as he tried to fly to Bangkok under a controversial law often wielded against the press. Photo: AFP
30 August 2019
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned a decision by Myanmar’s Mandalay...
Aung Marm Oo, Editor-In-Chief & Executive Director of Delopment Media Group (DMG). Photo: Aung Marm O/Facebook
14 May 2019
Myanmar authorities should immediately cease harassing and threatening to arrest Aung...
The Irrawaddy Burmese-language editor Ye Ni. Photo: Ye Ni/Facebook
26 April 2019
Myanmar's military should drop its criminal defamation case against independent news...
Ma Mon Mon Pan (right) and Ah Kyaw (left), reporters with the Burmese-language Myitkyina Journal newspaper.
01 March 2019
The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the harassment, detention, and assault...