A Chance to Fix in Time: Analysis of Freedom of Expression in Four Years Under the Current Government on July 21. U Kyaw Min Swe was granted bail on August 4, after eight denials. The Tatmadaw dropped the case on September 1, 2017. 4.8 Journalists Caught And Tortured for News Coverage U Ding Sawng of Tha Khin Sit Mining filed lawsuits against U Brang Mai and U Zaw Khun, executive directors of Myitkyina News Journal; and reporter Ma Mun Mun Pan with defamation charge at Waingmaw township court, Kachin State on March 4 after the journal published an article expressing Tha Khin Sit Mining was planning to illegally plant banana trees on February 25, 2019. The article also included interviews with villagers who were worried about the company land clearance in Waingmaw township. A day after the article was published a representative from Tha Khin Sit company came to the journal office and asked to send reporters Mun Mun Pan and Ahje to their office in Waingmaw township. When they arrived, the two reporters were detained in separate rooms in the company compound. Ma Mun Mun Pan was slapped with a rolled journal and Ahje was forced to do 100,000 sit-ups as punishment but both were released as executive directors, a police officer and local administrator reached their office when he finished 300 sit-ups. 40 Chapter (4): Media Freedom