Journalists In The Crosshairs In Myanmar

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VOA reporter hit with rubber bullets.

Journalists Become Targets in Myanmar Violence   

As security forces in Myanmar respond with greater force against protesters, journalists are being targeted or caught in the crossfire.   The United Nations and the United States this week condemned the violent force used against citizens protesting a coup on February 1, with the U.N...

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6 Journalists Covering Myanmar Unrest Arrested

Six journalists have been arrested in Myanmar over their coverage of the anti-coup demonstrations. A lawyer for Thein Zaw of the Associated Press says Thein and five other journalists have been charged under a law that prohibits anyone from causing fear, knowingly spreads false news or...

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Also 6 Journalists are arrested in Myanmar over the protests.

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/03/myanmar-journalist-danny-fenster/

Here is another Journalist Danny Fenster of Fronteir Myanmar detained in Myanmar due to the fallout of the protests.

Early on the morning of May 24, Bryan Fenster woke up to a string of alarming text messages: His brother, Danny, had been detained at Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport while trying to fly home to Michigan, to surprise their parents with his first visit in three years.

“I knew right away that this was going to be really bad,” Bryan recalled. His brother had been working as the managing editor for the news outlet Frontier Myanmar, and journalists were increasingly being targeted in the Southeast Asian nation, where the military junta seized power in a February coup. He steeled himself to call up their parents and deliver the news, and then sprung into action.