Reporters are banned from the area where the incident happened.Police Lieutenant Kyaw Thu, the acting station head in Buthidaung township, in the north of Rakhine state, told Reuters both the news agency and the lawmaker, Maung Kyaw Zan, were being sued under section 66D of the Telecommunications Act.The section, which has been used to jail government critics in the south-east Asian country, outlaws online defamation and carries a maximum two-year jail sentence.Kyaw Thu told Reuters on Sunday: “We are trying to make an approach [to Reuters] in so far as we can, to find out where Reuters news agency is, what kind of organisation it is and the reporter and the editor.”He said police had requested permission from the speaker of Myanmar’s national parliament with regards to proceeding with the case against Maung Kyaw Zan, who represents Buthidaung, a town in Rakhine state.The case follows an army complaint about a story published by Reuters on 25 January in which the lawmaker was quoted as saying that the army’s artillery fire had caused the deaths of the two Rohingya women.The army held a news conference on 4 February to complain about the story, after which Reuters updated the story to reflect the army’s position.The army subsequently filed a complaint to the Myanmar Press Council (MPC), which adjudicates on such disputes.A Reuters spokesperson said: “Reuters stands by the reporting that is of concern to the military and is the subject of an ongoing discussion with Myanmar’s Press Council. The Reuters report centers on claims that in early September eight men and two teenage high school students in the Myanmar village of Inn Din were executed and then buried in a mass grave. "As with other, previous reports of mass graves, Police say local MP and news service face lawsuit over report that army’s artillery fire killed two Rohingya womenMyanmar’s police said the army had filed a lawsuit against Reuters news agency and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after the military objected to a news story published about the death of two Rohingya Muslim women as a result of shelling in Rakhine state.After publication, the army said its artillery fire had not killed the women or caused other civilian injuries and blamed insurgents of the Arakan Army (AA), who are fighting for greater autonomy in Rakhine state.
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday formally declared her intention to seek a second term in an election in November that is seen as a test of the Southeast Asian nation’s tentative democratic reforms.
This article is more than 4 months old. Thomson Reuters (Reuters) - A Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar prompted demands from the U.S. State Department for a credible investigation into the bloodshed there and calls for the release of two journalists who were arrested while working on the report. After decades of military rule, Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning for democracy, took the reins in 2016 after an electoral landslide, but has been forced to share power with the generals. YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday formally declared her intention to seek a second term in an election in November that is … We have not seen any criminal complaint against Reuters, and so cannot comment further at this time.”The member of parliament said it was unfair to bring a lawsuit against him.
On the domestic front, Suu Kyi’s adminstration has had faltering peace talks with ethnic armed groups in various parts of the country, while a struggling economy faces new pressure from the cororavirus pandemic. REUTERS/Stringer On Tuesday, Suu Kyi, 75, waved to a crowd of around 50 supporters on the outskirts of the former capital Yangon to submit an application to run as a candidate. Myanmar has filed a report on its adherence to measures to protect Rohingya, but details of the document have not been published. The special report… Detained Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo talks to journalists after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar February 6, 2018.
Some of her supporters wore red-coloured face masks denoting their backing for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party and shouted: “Mother Suu, be healthy.” In 2017, a military-led crackdown in Myanmar resulted in more than 730,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border to Bangladesh, where they took shelter in refugee camps. A police officer stands guard in Maungdaw township, Rakhine State, Myanmar.
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