The Protection Committee for Myanmar Journalists, a group of local reporters who have demonstrated against past prosecutions of journalists, decried the "unfair arrests that affect media freedom". In a statement on Facebook, the committee said its members would don black T-shirts "to signify the dark age of media freedom" in Myanmar. Myo Nyunt, deputy director for Myanmar's Ministry of Information, told Reuters the case had nothing to do with press freedom. "Journalists should be able to tell what is secret and what is not... We already have press freedom. Asked about the local reporters' "black campaign", he said: "Everyone can express his feelings."

Source: Bangkok Post December 16, 2017 11:26 UTC