Bachelet demands immediate release of all journalists detained in Myanmar

This Friday, the United Nations (UN) asked the military junta of Myanmar that “release immediately”To all the journalists arrested for doing their work, following a US correspondent sentenced to 11 years in prison.

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“Journalists have been targeted since February 1, military leaders are clearly trying to prevent them from reporting on serious human rights violations perpetrated across Burma.”He said in a statement Michelle bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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“Attacks against journalists and the media only increase the vulnerability of an important part of society, which has fair and independent information“Added the former Chilean president.

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Bachelet made these statements after the conviction of Danny window, an American journalist, to 11 years in prison.

Fenster, detained for six months in Burma, was convicted of incitement to dissent, illegal association and violation of immigration law, his lawyer Than Zaw Aung told AFP.

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In another case, he is also charged with terrorism and sedition and faces life in prison.

According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 126 journalists, media directors and media executives have been detained since the February 1 coup, and 47 of them remain in prison.

Twenty of them have been accused of committing crimes for their work as journalists, and nine media outlets have had their licenses withdrawn and another twenty have been forced to suspend their activities, according to the statement.

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