A Chance to Fix in Time: Analysis of Freedom of Expression in Four Years Under the Current Government 17(1) and (2) of Unlawful Associations Act and can face a maximum of five years and a minimum of three years or a fine or both under Section 17(2). 4.4 Journalist Charged for Live-streaming A Protest A major in Patheingyi township police force arrested Ko Nanda, a journalist working for Channel Mandalay, while he was livestreaming a protest demanding to end Alpha’s cement factory project being built in Aung Thabyay village, Patheingyi township, Mandalay Region on May 15, 2019. Ko Nanda was sued under Section 147 of the Penal Code (punishment for rioting), Section 333 of the Penal Code (voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty), Section 332 of the Penal Code (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), Section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant form discharge of his duty) and Section114 of the Penal Code (abettor present when offence is committed) by Patheingyi township police officer Myo Nyut Than at Patheingyi township court. 4.5 Two Reuters Journalists Charged Under Official Secrets Act for Exposing Inn Din Massacre Two Reuters journalists, Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested and charged under Section 3 of Burma Official Secrets Act on December 12, 2017, for uncovering a massacre committed by the Tatmadaw in Inn Din village in Rakhine State. Ko Wa Lone who was investigating and exposing the massacre of 10 Inn Din villagers in September, attempted to contact some police officers who had been assigned at Rakhine State, in order to strengthen the information in November and early December. Then, he got in contact with a police officer working at Htauk Kyant township police force who had been assigned to Rakhine State. That police officer made an appointment with him at a restaurant. Ko Wa Lone went to the place together with his colleague Ko Kyaw Soe Oo where they met some police officers including the one who gave them some documents although they did not ask. When they left the restaurant the waiting police officers arrested them, alleging they kept the information related to Rakhine issues and national security. Then the pair was charged under Section 3 of Burma Official Secrets Act by which they can face a maximum of 14 years imprisonment. The police lieutenant colonel Moe Yan Naing to whom they interviewed was also fired by Myanmar Police Force Maintenance and Discipline Law and sentenced to one year in prison. 38 Chapter (4): Media Freedom

Select target paragraph3