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Global Witness strongly condemns the news announced today on Myanmar state television that Myanmar’s military junta has stripped five independent media organisations of their licences. Mizzima, Myanmar Now, 7-Day, DVB and Khit Thit Media have all been banned from operating and publishing. We also condemn the Monday raiding of Myanmar Now’s offices.

With a spate of recent murders of journalists in Malta, Slovakia, and Bulgaria, the threat to journalists have never felt so close to home. But the weapons that the powerful use to suppress speech are often far subtler.