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Burma

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From the Communiqué

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IFEX members welcome release of journalists, bloggers

In a move showing the government's commitment to reform, Burma has released more than 650 prisoners in a presidential amnesty, including high-profile blogger Nay Phone Latt, five Democratic Voice of Burma journalists and leading musician-journalist Win Maw, report Mizzima News and other IFEX members. Of those released in this latest round of prison releases, 302 of them were political prisoners.

Hundreds of political prisoners freed, including famous comedian

The Burmese government has freed hundreds of prisoners, including the famous comedian Zarganar, and announced that it would free 6,000 more, report Mizzima News, the Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International (WiPC), Index on Censorship (Index), ARTICLE 19, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

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Campaigns and Advocacy

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RSF releases video interviews with recently freed journalists and blogger

Journalists U Zeya and Sithu Zeya, and blogger Nay Phone Latt, all of whom were released from jail on 13 January, discuss their prison experiences.

Human Rights Watch urges Japan to press Burma's foreign minister on human rights issues

Japanese officials were urged to press Burma to release all political prisoners and abolish laws used to repress the rights to freedom of speech, association and assembly.

Interview with newly-freed dissident comedian Zarganar

Zarganar talks about the political prisoners who have not been freed, including bloggers and writers such as Zaw Thet Htwe and Nay Phone Latt.

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Reports

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SEAPA report: "Burma in mid-2011: a contradictory landscape"

The report addresses the question of what can be expected from the new civilian government, and what are its reasons for the recent gestures toward liberalisation.

Press freedom vital to credible Burmese reform, says CPJ report

The government's reform rhetoric is contradicted by heavy censorship tactics that continue to make the country's media among the most restricted in the world, says CPJ in a new report.


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