The trial against writer Saw Wai and two other activists started on charges of violation of Section 505(a) of the Penal Code.
Read More »Freemuse calls for the release of Myanmar’s Peacock Generation thangyat troupe from Insein Prison
Three members of Peacock Generation convicted and sentenced to six months in prison on the charge of “online defamation."
Read More »Myanmar: Censorship board bans nude scenes in film about Austrian painter Egon Schiele
A movie about painter Egon Schiele was pulled from the European Film Festival in Yangon after Myanmar's censorship board banned scenes with nudity.
Read More »Myanmar/Burma: Censors pull film from human rights festival
Myanmar’s film censorship board banned the film ‘Twilight over Burma’ on the grounds that it could “harm ethnic unity” and the “image of the military” as it tells the real-life story of an Austrian woman who married an ethnic Shan prince during the early days of the country’s independence and …
Read More »Myanmar/Burma: Poet sentenced to six months in prison for defamation
Poet Maung Saung Kha was sentenced on 24 May 2016 to six months in prison for defaming former president Thein Sein in a poem he posted on his Facebook page in October 2015, reported PEN International on 25 May 2016. The poet was arrested on 5 November 2015, charged for online …
Read More »Myanmar/Burma: Poet arrested for posting ‘defamatory’ poem
According to PEN Myanmar, poet Maung Saung Kha was arrested on 5 November 2015 for defaming the president in a poem he posted on Facebook in early October 2015 in which a line said that he had a portrait of the president tattooed on his penis. The 23-year-old poet published …
Read More »Myanmar/Burma: How censorship shaped an artist
In this 5-minute video film, an artist offers a peek into the underground of Myanmar where artists are taking their non-violent fight for freedom of expression to the streets. “They destroyed our art in a very ruthless way.” A young graffiti artist in Myanmar was censored for using the orange …
Read More »Myanmar/Burma: Film and report about The Art of Transition symposium
As Burma transitions from military dictatorship to democracy, Index on Censorship joined with artists, journalists and performers to explore the arts in the country at a symposium in 2013. The Art of Transition Symposium took place in Yangon on 30–31 March 2013. It was the first public discussion of artist freedom …
Read More »Myanmar/Burma: Freedom of expression in transition | Index on Censorship
The third section of Index on Censorship’s report, ‘Freedom of expression in transition’, is about artistic freedom of expression and censorship within literature, comedy, visual art, performance art, music, and film in Burma. The report is written by Mike Harris, head of advocacy at Index on Censorship, and was published …
Read More »Myanmar/Burma: Artist returns after 18 years of exile, precautiously
Even though government censorship of art has eased in Burma, Win Pe, a leading figure in Burma’s modern arts movement, is still taking precautions. While he displayed 20 colorful paintings of zodiac signs in his exhibition in Rangoon recently, he kept others off the walls in an act of self-censorship, …
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