Press Freedom: Top 4 Stories of the Week | VOA News

VOA Press Freedom reporter Cristina Caicedo Smit highlights the top 4 news stories for this week, September 8, 2023.

A Myanmar court on Wednesday sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison on charges related to his coverage of a cyclone.

Sai Zaw Thaike, who worked for the news website Myanmar Now, was arrested in the country’s Rakhine state on May 23 while he was in the state covering Cyclone Mocha.

The storm killed more than 145 people, including many Rohinga, Myanmar’s junta said at the time.

In a one-day hearing Wednesday, a court convicted the journalist of sedition and other charges and sentenced him to 20 years in the country’s notorious Insein Prison, with hard labor.

The exact nature of his crime was not made public, but his employer, the independent news outlet Myanmar Now, said he was initially indicted on four charges, including breaching a natural disaster law and a telecommunications law.

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