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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[Original Burmese text] writer Khet Mar profiles Nyein Thit, a poet and political activist who was repeatedly jailed for participating in the Hmaing Centennial Strike and the 1988 uprising. The aging poet now wishes to leave activism to focus more on his writing.
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Burmese writer Khet Mar profiles Nyein Thit, a poet and political activist who was repeatedly jailed for participating in the Hmaing Centennial Strike and the 1988 uprising. The aging poet now wishes to leave activism to focus more on his writing.
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In this week’s Tea House column, the poet Khet Mar chronicles the work of Zaganar, a respected comedian, who despite multiple prison sentences, continues to fight for freedom of expression in Burma.
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Khet Mar reflects on her friend Win Maw, a renowned musician and video journalist, who spent years in prison for his support of Aung San Suu Kyi and his involvement in documenting the Saffron Revolution in 2007. He was released in January, 2012.
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The Art of Freedom film festival awarded the Best Short Documentary prize to “Click in Fear,” a film about journalist Law Eh Soe. Burma’s first film festival featured uncensored films, some of which are critical of the former military regime.
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