Burma - Burmese blogger and comedian finally collects Reporters Without Borders prize

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders today finally had the pleasure of presenting Burmese blogger, comedian and actor Zarganar with the press freedom prize in the “Cyber-dissident” category that it awarded to him in December 2008, when he was in prison. Arrested on 4 June 2008 after talking to the BBC World Service and other foreign news media about the then military government's mismanagement of relief operations after Cyclone Nargis and its guilty silence on the subject, Zarganar ended up being (...)

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