Tag archive: Myanmar

Myanmar – the country formerly known as Burma – has been judged the most restrictive country for bloggers, according to a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists. The junta ruling Myanmar blocked all Internet access for a while during uprisings in 2007. Coming second on the list is Iran, where blogger Omid Mir Sayafi died in Tehran's Evin jail. He’d allegedly insulted the country’s leader,… Read More

Reporters Without Frontiers have released their Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007, and it highlights not only the problems with press freedom for traditional journalists around the globe, but also the threat to bloggers.   A number of countries have seen their rankings fall because of the way they’ve restricted or violated the freedom of bloggers. Several countries, like Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Egypt, have arrested bloggers… Read More

The recent demonstrations in Myanmar were shown to the world largely by mobile phone video footage and blogs and video posted online by those within the country.   As thousands marched againstthe control of the military junta, the rest of the world watched. At least, they watched until the country’s government cut off Internet access.   Against a backdrop of arrests of protestleaders, that online access was reinstated on… Read More