Burma - Cautious welcome for announced lifting of pre-publication censorship

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the announcement by Burma's censorship office, known as the Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD), that the government is abolishing prior censorship for "political and religious" print media from today. If this decision is implemented and if it really means that these newspapers and magazines will no longer have to submit the drafts of their articles to censors before publishing them, it will mark an historic break with half a century of (...)

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