According to today's news release from the
Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ), an International Media Watchdog
Group, journalists in Burma remain among the most restricted and
censored in the world.
The
special report was written by Shawn W.Crispin from CPJ. The writer
mentioned that although Burma's new government has promised reform,
authorities continued to censor and imprison journalists.Those who
report for critical, exile-run media remain at great risk. Journalists'
phones were tapped and they were all under constant surveillance.
"No foreign national journalists are legally accredited to work for international news organizations in Burma,
and those who parachute in on assignment are often expelled for
violations of the no-work terms of tourist visas", the report says.
The
Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) announced that 17
journalists who worked for the agency are currently detained in Burma,
some of them with life-long sentences.
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