Deji Olukotun, PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write Fellow, reports on the status of free expression in Myanmar and several burgeoning movements within this country in flux.
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It’s not easy to be a dissident blogger in some countries. This list by esglobal spotlights such activists, whose fundamental rights are being restricted.
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Blogger Nay Phone Latt provided vital information to the outside world during Burma’s Saffron Revolution. This earned him a twenty-year jail sentence and a charge of “creating public alarm.”
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Khet Mar profiles blogger Nay Phone Latt who was sentenced to twenty years in prison for providing information to foreign media during the Saffron Revolution.
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Following the May 2010 release of Saw Wei, a Burmese poet imprisoned for two and a half years after “inducing crime against public tranquility,” Sampsonia Way writer Brian Honigman reflects on other Burmese authors imprisoned for their work.
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