Burma - Censorship board back in action, suspends two weeklies

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, the Burma Media Association, roundly condemn the resumption of censorship by Burma's Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), which suspended two weeklies, The Voice and The Envoy, indefinitely on 31 July for allegedly violating “2011 Order No. 44” and a PSRD ban on publishing articles that have not received its approval. “The PSRD's measures show we were right to have repeatedly voiced doubts in recent months,” the two (...)

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