ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship more years with hard labour under the Counter-Terrorism Law.67 On June 28, 2023, the former publisher of The Irrawaddy–an independent media outlet–was sentenced to five years in prison for sedition and was fined MMK 100,000 ($47).68 As of July 2023, he remains in detention.69 In September 2023, photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court under the military, the longest known prison sentence for a journalist since the coup. He was arrested in the western state of Rakhine while reporting for Myanmar Now on the aftermath of Cyclone Mocha, which claimed many lives at the end of May. Sai Zaw Thaike was facing four charges, including an offence under the Telecommunications Act. However, Myanmar Now reported that the precise charges against him were unclear. He had been detained without access to a lawyer or family visits before the trial began.70 Finally, Dhanabir Maibam, editor of the Hueiyen Lanpao, was arrested at the end of December 2023 under Section 505A for a report on the law and order situation in the border town of Moreh in Tengnoupal, which shares a border with Myanmar.71 The military junta’s ongoing efforts to control the flow of information has also included the mass arbitrary arrests of writers and poets.72 192 Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia