ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship TV and junta-run newspapers broadcast and publish of the armed forces under Section 505A, illegal the names of those accused of violating the Section association under section 17(1) of the Unlawful 505A of the Penal Code, including bloggers, vloggers Association Act, and violating immigration law and social media influencers who showed support section 13(1) of the Immigration Act. He received for anti-junta demonstrations. Those on the wanted an 11-year sentence, as well as a MMK 100,000 list had to go underground and hide. For example, fine ($46).50 According to Frontier, the charges were in February 2021, the junta announced that seven based on the false belief that he was employed at prominent opposers of the coup were being hunted Myanmar Now, an independent news site critical of for their comments on social media, claiming that the military. After negotiations between the junta these individuals had threatened national stability and Bill Richardson, former US ambassador to the in violation of Section 505(b) of the Penal Code. UN, he was released on “humanitarian grounds” on 54 “ 55 Nov. 15, 2021.61 The case of Kaung Myat Hlaing, a reporter for the Today, no journalist inside Myanmar is safe. They could be arrested at any time and potentially face decades in prison. 56 - Thomas Kean, Editor-in-chief at Frontier Myanmar On Feb. 12, 2021, Myanmar Now reporter Kay Zon Nway was charged with incitement under Section 505A of the Penal Code and arrested while livestreaming a protest in downtown Yangon. She was released towards the end of June that year. In March 2021, 57 journalists Han Thar Nyein and Nathan Maung were both charged under Section 505A for “spreading fake news.” The charges against Nathan Maung were dropped in June 2021, while Han Thar Nyein was 58 sentenced to two years in March 2022.59 In November 2021, Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, was arrested and subsequently convicted on allegations of endangering the interests Myanmar Democratic Voice of Burma, likewise proves that the life of the Burmese journalists is at stake. Kaung Myat Hlaing was detained and arrested, and brutally shot for livestreaming the police raid near his apartments in the southern coastal town of Myeik on March 2, 2021.62 In another case from July 2022, a Japanese journalist was arrested while covering a protest in Yangon, then charged with encouraging dissent against the military.63 He was still in detention as of March 2023. In October 2022, Sithu Aung Myint, a Frontier Myanmar columnist and contributor to Voice of America, was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour after 14 months in pre-trial detention. He was convicted of “inciting government employees to commit crimes” under Section 505 A of the Penal Code.64 According to military-run media, Sithu Aung Myint was arrested over articles he posted to social media that were critical of the junta and that allegedly encouraged people to support the opposition.65 More recently, in April 2023, Kyaw Min Swe–editor in chief of the now banned Aasan (The Voice) newspaper–was secretly detained by the junta and charged under section 505A. His arrest was made public 10 days after it occured.66 Hmu Yadanar Khet Moh Moh Tun–reporter for Myanmar Pressphoto Agency–also continues to be targeted: initially serving a three year sentence given in December 2022 under charges of incitement to fake news, on May 26, 2023, she was given 10 191