On the same day, security forces in Myitkyina, Kachin State, beat Christopher, a reporter from Myitkyina Journal. There were also cases where a few reporters, fortunately not arrested, were attacked, and injured by car-wheel-bearing steel balls. A DVB reporter from Myeik, Aung Kyaw, was arrested after throwing rocks and gunshots at this house. He was injured on his head, and he recorded and live-streamed the incident via DVB’s Facebook page. He was then prosecuted for defaming the State (article 505-a) and sentenced to three years in prison. Under the custody, the authorities did not allow him to communicate with his family for eight months and violated many other prisoners’ rights. Aung Kyaw, the journalist from Myeik, faced continuous tortures. Those included: taking him violently to the detention spot in the air force compound with incessant mistreatments along the way; severe torments and humiliations such as booting at his face, burning face and back of his hands with cigarettes, wrapping plastic bags over his head for suffocation. Two soldiers tied his arms during those tortures and peeled off his fingernails. Kicks, fist-blows, and beating with batons made one of his eyes swollen and closed, nasal bones broken and bleeding. Due to those hostilities, he suffered almost unconscious. Until then, his head, already with several injuries, was hardly kicked by a security personnel in uniform, and he collapsed. Because of the physical traumas, Aung Kyaw finds it difficult to be recovered enough after his release with an amnesty. While many journalists are subjected to torture when arrested, investigated, or under custody, there are cases of arresting the escaped journalists’ family members and relatives by the police forces under SAC’s control. When the police force was investigating founders and journalists working for the Thanlwin Times news agency, their family members were threatened to be arrested. Thus, they moved to safe zones together with their families. At around midnight on 14th September, tens of military and police officers surrounded a local journalist’s house in Magway Region and yelled the journalist’s name. They dragged him outside and threatened him not to run away with their guns. They made him kneel on the tarmac road and handcuffed him. Stabbing his wife’s chest with the gun-muzzles, they commended to hand over his work-related computer. He was then brought to the police station, tortured by pounding his chest and whipping his front and back with batons and belts until 5:00 AM. Repeated Dark Age of News Media 11