A Chance to Fix in Time: Analysis of Freedom of Expression in Four Years Under the Current Government Loikaw township. Kayah State Government announced the prohibited areas of protests in Loikaw on January 29, 2019. Kayah State became the second place where peaceful assembly is prohibited after Yangon. (c) Kachin State Kachin State that is plagued by the chronic civil war is suffering numerous violations of free speech too. Lieutenant Colonel Than Htike of Northern Command of the Tatmadaw filed a lawsuit at Myitkyina township court against Rev. Dr. Hkalam Samson, the president of ethnic Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) after the religious leader shared about the religious oppression committed by the Tatmadaw when he met the president of the United States. Besides, ethnic Kachin activists Ko Pawlu and Ma Seng Nu Pan were arrested and charged under Section 19 of Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law for their performance depicting the ethnic Kachin IDPs in the State. U Zau Jat, U Lum Zawng and Daw Nang Pu who all organised a protest calling to save the trapped IDPs in battles between the Tatmadaw and Kachin Independence Army (KIA), an ethnic armed organisation, in Kachin State were charged under Sention 500 of the Penal Code by the Tatmadaw. The trio was sentenced to six months and fined five hundred thousand Kyat (500,000 MMK) by the Myitkyina township court. 29 Chapter (2): Freedom of Expression