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06-30-2017, 08:49 PM
https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/akhbar/2017-06-30/l_213401_040459_print.jpg YANGON: Family and colleagues of three Myanmar journalists who face up to three years in prison on charges of contacting ethnic rebels appealed for their release on Thursday, in a case that has raised concerns about Myanmar’s transition to democracy.
The men have been accused of breaching the colonial-era Unlawful Associations Act after covering an event on Monday where the rebel Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) burned piles of narcotics to mark International Day Against Drug Abuse.
“We don’t really think our journalists have working relations with the TNLA group, which the government calls terrorists,” said Than Win Htut, planning editor at the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), the employer of two of the journalists.
“They are just doing a journalist’s job. “The TNLA, which demands more auto**my for the Ta’ang ethnic group, regularly clashes with government forces.
Broadcaster DVB’s Aye Nai and Pyae Phone Naing, and Lawi Weng of the Irrawaddy magazine, were remanded along with three others in Hsipaw prison, in **rthern Shan State, on Wednesday.
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The men have been accused of breaching the colonial-era Unlawful Associations Act after covering an event on Monday where the rebel Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) burned piles of narcotics to mark International Day Against Drug Abuse.
“We don’t really think our journalists have working relations with the TNLA group, which the government calls terrorists,” said Than Win Htut, planning editor at the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), the employer of two of the journalists.
“They are just doing a journalist’s job. “The TNLA, which demands more auto**my for the Ta’ang ethnic group, regularly clashes with government forces.
Broadcaster DVB’s Aye Nai and Pyae Phone Naing, and Lawi Weng of the Irrawaddy magazine, were remanded along with three others in Hsipaw prison, in **rthern Shan State, on Wednesday.
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