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'Strangulation of free speech in Myanmar': Former columnist jailed for 'abusive' Facebook posts on Aung San Suu Kyi

Ngar Min Swe, a columnist under the previous army government in Myanmar, has written a number of posts against Aung San Suu Kyi since her party rose to power in 2016.

Reuters journalists jailed for 'breaking law', have every right to appeal verdict, says Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi

“If we believe in the rule of law, they have every right to appeal the judgment and to point out why the judgment was wrong, Suu Kyi said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi.

Reuters scribes jailed: 'Advocate of freedom of expression is also necessarily a practitioner', world awaits Aung San Suu Kyi's response

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi spent the duration between 1989 and 2010 in some form of detention as a result of her work to bring democracy in the then-military ruled Myanmar.

Aung San Suu Kyi's reputation as champion of free speech in shreds as Myanmar jails Reuters journalists for 7 years

Suu Kyi was once a staunch advocate for the free press and a darling of the foreign media. During her long years of house arrest under the former junta — which choked the media inside Myanmar — it was foreign correspondents who carried her message of peaceful defiance to the outside world.

Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar: UN human rights chief seeks quashing of conviction, calls trial 'travesty of justice'

New United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Monday she was "shocked" by Myanmar's jailing of two Reuters journalists for seven years and called for their immediate release.

Reuters journalists to face trial for breaching Mayanmar's secrecy law; scribes were investigating massacre of Rohingya Muslims

Yangon district judge charged the reporters with breach of the colonial-era Official Secret Act which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.

Lawyer of Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's secrecy law urges court to drop case against pair

Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are accused of breaching Myanmar's Official Secrets Act, which carries up to 14 years in jail.

Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Syria blog posted

Thomson Reuters said the blogging platform of the Reuters News website was compromised on Friday and a false posting ...