Journalists still have reason to fear government repression as opening of Burma media hits wall | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Following a student demonstration in 1998, Khin Cho Myint was arrested after being given up by one of her colleagues. She was interrogated, sitting on a stool, in Insein prison for 48 hours before being sent to solitary confinement for one week. Four months later she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. “During 1997 and…