Han Thar – journo & @ABCnews stringer – has been in prison in #Myanmar for +8 months. His colleague Nathan Maung was released. @PeterGreste speaks w Nathan on their experience & the future for #journalism there. #ThisIsNews. Spread the word & #SaveHanThar https://t.co/6DL6yBSVYX
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are suffering an outage. The company said it was “aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app” and it was working on restoring access. https://t.co/FF5wI4akqP
"He is like a radio for us in prison"
တလကျော်လောက်ရှိမယ် အဆက်အသွယ်ပျက်သွားကြတယ် သူနဲ့အတူထောင်ကျနေတဲ့တချိန်လုံး ထောင်ထဲမှာတော့ သူဟာကျနော်တို့တဖွဲလုံးရဲ့ ရေဒီယိုလေးတလုံးပါပဲ။
#freedomforhanthar#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Today marks 6 months since my friend and colleague Han Thar Nyein was arrested in Myanmar. Han Thar is a respected journalist who has worked with @ABCNews & @ForeignOfficial. Please watch this video & join the call for #FreedomForHanThar & other media workers in #Myanmar.
"They did not allow me to sleep for about three or four days. Nonstop interrogation. There was no time to sleep," he said. He said the beatings diminished on the fourth day, after they discovered he was a U.S. citizen.
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"Hanthar was badly treated because he was Burmese national. He had to kneel down on the ground for like two days. His skin was burnt with a cigarette," he said.
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“The detention of Daniel and Nathan, as well as arrest and use of violence by the Burmese military against other journalists, constitutes an unacceptable attack on freedom of expression in Burma,” the State Department said, using Myanmar’s former name.
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Quote of the Day, by a family member of Han Thar Nyein, co-founder of Karmayut Media. He was taken away by soldiers in March and has not been heard from since.
Hundreds have been forcibly disappeared since the February 1 coup: https://t.co/w6LYCymauN
#WhatIsHappeningInMyanmar