Myanmar charges journalist under terrorism law, blocks news websites

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Report: Nay Myo Lin has been arrested over last week's interview with the Arakan Army rebel group.

A Myanmar court charged a journalist who published an interview with the Arakan Army rebel group under a terrorism law today while his website and others that cover the conflict in the troubled western Rakhine state were blocked in the country.

, under sections of the Terrorism Act for conducting the March 27 interview with the Arakan Army in which it responded to Myanmar's decision to label it as a terrorist group. Myanmar’s communications ministry also said it had ordered mobile operators to block dozens of websites over "fake news". It did not publish a list of the blocked sites but several prominent outlets covering the conflict in Rakhine were inaccessible on Tuesday.that websites had been blocked "because we received orders", declining to elaborate.

 

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