Opinion: Two journalists are free. But democracy in Myanmar is deteriorating
Prison department officers arrive to enter Shwe Bo prison after a riot at the prison in Sagaing region on Thrusday. By Hunter Marston May 11 at 4:18 PM Hunter Marston is a PhD candidate at Australian National University and an independent consultant at GlobalWonks LLC.
According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, there are 25 political prisoners remaining behind bars with an additional 283 awaiting trial. Athan, a group in Yangon that defends freedom of expression, counts 173 defamation cases brought against citizens under a restrictive law since its enactment in 2013. Of those, 140 have taken place since Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD took power in 2016.
The NLD government has relied on antiquated, colonial-era legislation to clamp down on outspoken critics in the press and civil society in an attempt to impose a strict party line on matters of domestic turmoil, particularly surrounding the crisis in Rakhine state, the home of most of the 730,000 ethnic Rohingya driven out of the country by the military’s scorched-earth tactics since 2017.
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