In an interview with Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Friday, 7 October, Tint Swe, Deputy Director General of Burma’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD), stated: “Press censorship is non-existent in most other countries as well as among our neighbors and as it is not in harmony with democratic practices; press censorship should be abolished in the […]

Twelve media freedom organisations, including the International Press Institute,  cosigned, today, a joint statement calling on the Burmese government to put a stop to its harassment and prosecution of journalists and calling on the release of the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalist. Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists www.freeburmavj.org Despite pledges by […]

Two journalists are among more than 7,000 prisoners being released under an amnesty announced by Burma’s junta on Thursday, news reports said. According to the exiled Burmese news agency Mizzima News, the Burmese censorship board invited local and foreign journalists to come to the notorious Insein Prison for a press conference timed to coincide with […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the decision of the Indian authorities to re-open Mizzima News head office in New Delhi. The office was sealed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on 16 April 2007. The decision to re-open the office followed pressure by Mizzinma’s supporters and international press freedom organisations, including IPI. Mizzima head […]