The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined a group of 20 global press freedom and human rights organizations in welcoming Myanmar’s creation of a Constitutional Amendment Committee tasked with supporting the country’s transition to democracy. The group is recommending specific changes to protect freedom of expression and media freedom in the constitution. Despite a promising […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today condemned the arrest in Myanmar on October 10 of three journalists with the Eleven Media group and demanded their immediate release. According to reports, police summoned top editors U Kyaw Zaw Lin and Nari Min along with […]

2015 marked what many thought would mark a monumental shift in Myanmar’s political landscape. The citizens of a country ruled for decades by the military headed for the polls in November in the first democratic election in decades. The media were nervously expecting long-overdue freedoms and rights, including being able to report critically without the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today condemned a jail sentence given to two Reuters journalists in Myanmar and demanded their immediate release. A Yangon North district court judge today sentenced the two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, to seven years in prison for […]