YANGON: Journalists in Myanmar staged a protest on Tuesday to denounce new threats to press freedom and demand the release of a fellow reporter—the first to be jailed since junta rule ended.

About 150 journalists and activists marched through Yangon chanting slogans including “No threat to press freedom” and waving placards which read: “Right to information is the life of democracy.”

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