ျမန္မာသတင္းေထာက္ ၅ ဦးကိုဖမ္းထားဆဲ၊ေလးဦးကိုလႊတ္ေပး

Reporters Without Borders
Burma Media Association


9 October 2007


BURMA
Five journalists currently held, four others released - Internet restored for a few hours

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association welcome the release of Kyaw Ze Yar Tun of the newspaper The Voice. In a separate development, Internet connections were restored for a few hours today.

The Internet came back on at 2 p.m., and some Rangoon Internet caf้s opened for the first time in nearly two weeks. But it was cut again a few hours later. Burmese sources said that the Internet, when in came back on, was very slow and that all email messages sent to Burmese (.mm) addresses during the crisis, had been deleted. It was impossible to access news websites and blogs.

Reporters Without Borders and the BMA call for the complete restoration of the Internet, without restrictions.