An Australian journalist, and owner and editor of the english-language newspaper 'Myanmar Times', was arrested in Burma on the 12th for overstaying his visa, and if convicted, could be facing up to five years in jail. Also, only days before this, a burmese journalist was given a sentence for thirteen years in prison for various 'crimes'.
These recent events show how Burma is not changing under it's new leadership, but simply continuing on with the same corrupt and unjust things, which is further shown through the press freedom index from media group 'reporters without borders', where Burma is placed 174th out of 178.
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