Remember the good ol' days when we had freedom of the press?
I know from my work with Amnesty International that Myanmar (the country formerly known as Burma) has a huge record of human rights violations. And this is the company we keep.
From the New York Times via the Arizona Republic:
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The United States has tied with Myanmar, the former Burma, for sixth place among countries that are holding the most journalists behind bars, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Each country is jailing five journalists. The United States is holding four Iraqi journalists in detention centers in Iraq and one Sudanese, a cameraman who works for Al-Jazeera, at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. None of the five has been charged with a specific crime.
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