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Journalist detained for nearly a month in Burma Aung Kyaw Naing, a Burmese freelance journalist based in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, was reporting from an area held by the rebel Democratic Karen Benevolent Army before he was apprehended in the...

Journalist detained for nearly a month in Burma


Aung Kyaw Naing, a Burmese freelance journalist based in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, was reporting from an area held by the rebel Democratic Karen Benevolent Army before he was apprehended in the government-controlled township, reports said. Naing contributes news and photos to local Burmese publications Eleven Media, Yangon Times, and The Voice, according to local journalists and news reports.

Burma is holding at least nine journalists in jail, all of them sentenced to prison in court decisions this year, according to CPJ research.

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Photo caption & credit: Than Dar, the wife of missing journalist Aung Kyaw Naing, speaks during a press conference in Rangoon on Tuesday. (Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy)