U.S. Embassy Statement on Freedom of Speech

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo’s case is deeply disappointing. These convictions, like the recent detention of filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi and of the Peacock Generation Thangyat troupe, and the recent charges brought against editor U Ye Ni and other journalists, point to an increasing intolerance for free speech in Myanmar. Journalism, satire, peaceful protest, and other forms of legitimate expression should not be crimes in a democratic society.

ျပည္ေထာင္စုတရားလႊတ္ေတာ္ခ်ဳပ္၏ ကုိဝလုံးႏွင့္ ကုိေက်ာ္စုိးဦးတုိ႔၏အမႈအေပၚ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ မ်ားစြာစိတ္ပ်က္မိပါသည္။ ရုပ္ရွင္ဒါရုိက္တာ မင္းထင္ကုိကုိႀကီးႏွင့္ ေဒါင္းတို႔မ်ဳိးဆက္သံခ်ပ္အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားအား မၾကာေသးမီက ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္းႏွင့္ အယ္ဒီတာဦးရဲနည္ႏွင့္ အျခားေသာသတင္းေထာက္မ်ားကုိ မၾကာေသးမီက တရားစြဲဆုိျခင္းမ်ားကဲ့သုိ႔ေသာ ျပစ္ဒဏ္စီရင္မႈမ်ားသည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္း လြတ္လပ္စြာေျပာဆုိခြင့္အတြက္ သည္းခံမႈမရွိျခင္းပုိမုိတုိးလာေနေၾကာင္း ေထာက္ျပေနပါသည္။ သတင္းစာ၊ သေရာ္စာ၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာဆႏၵျပမႈႏွင့္ အျခားေသာတရားဝင္ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆုိမႈမ်ားသည္ ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ လူ႔ေဘာင္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းတစ္ရပ္အတြင္း ျပစ္မႈႈမ်ား မျဖစ္သင့္ေပ။

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