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MYANMAR – It has been reported that the junta council sentenced the photojournalist from Myanmar Now, who had travelled to Rakhine to record the aftermath of the storm, to 20 years in prison with hard labor on September 6.
The photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike was abducted in Sittwe town on May 23.
Three months later, the junta council’s Insein kangaroo court imprisoned him.
It was known that the inhumane junta council indicted him (Mr. Sai Zaw Thaike) under four sections. However, the detailed information was not yet known.
According to Myanmar Now’s issue, the initial indictments against him are Article 27 of the Natural Disaster Management Law, Section 505 (A) of the Penal Code, Section 66 (D) of the Telecommunication Law, and Section 124 of the Sedition Law.
The editor-in-chief of Myanmar Now mentioned that “Sai (the photojournalist) was trying to get the news at the front line without caring for his life. Most of the important news written by Myanmar Now was from him.”
He (Mr. Sai Zaw Thaike) is a veteran journalist, and he has been working at Myanmar Now Press since 2017.
Myanmar Now is an independent news agency, and it was one of the news agencies that were shut down by the coup council after the coup d’etat.
According to the List of Detained Journalists Group, 156 journalists were lawlessly abducted and four were murdered by the junta council from the coup d’etat, until May 1, 2023. Among them, around 50 journalists are still being kept in custody by the coup council.