ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship Targeting of Journalists and Media Opposing the MilitaryJournalists Regime Attacks on On-Duty MYANMAR Disorders involving the Media in Myanmar 112 120 100 Nb Nbof ofIncidents Events 80 60 40 28 20 13 2 0 3 0 2020 2021 2022 6 1 2023 Year TOTAL 148 17 The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), Disorder Involving the Media, (10 February 2024), available at:https://acleddata.com/data-export-tool/ LEGEND Disorders involving the Media Disorders involving Fatalities Fig. 5.2B: Disorders involving the Media in Myanmar, 2020-2023. “ We, who are based in Thailand, are also not safe online. Our family members are still in Myanmar. So even a single trace of our names could risk our family’s detention by the military regime. And even here, a lot of us journalists don’t share our online identity with anybody. 53 The information used to construct this infographic is sourced from the ACLED database, specifically the dataset titled “Disorders involving Media.” Within this database, we have exclusively selected relevant countries from the ASEAN region, namely Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines. However, this infographic only focuses on Myanmar. The events were further filtered based on an additional criterion: date. As our report focuses on events from 2020 to 2023, only those occurring between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2023, have been included - May (Pseudonym) & founder of the Myanmar Women Journalists Society Many journalists, including citizen journalists, and media professionals, are threatened by the military junta and are being forced to go into hiding or leave the country.49 Under the junta, journalists face life threatening conditions. Myanmar has become the world’s second biggest jailer of journalists. Since the coup, the junta has detained more than 140 journalists, 64 of them are still jailed and four died in custody.50 On May 3, 2023, the junta pardoned 2,153 prisoners detained based on article 505(A) of the Penal Code.51 Five of those freed are journalists.52 190 Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia