Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

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Mizzima Mizzima, one of Myanmar ’s most prominent news outlets and a press freedom advocate, obtained the Journalism Trust Initiative ( JTI ) certification from global audit firm Bureau Veritas , JTI says in a press statement 5 January.  Operating in clandestine mode within Myanmar and supported by an exiled team, Mizzima strives to fulfil its role as reliable source of news and information for the Myanmar public. “Your Journalism Trust Initiative certification affirms what audiences already know: that principled, transparent journalism matters. Congratulations on this achievement and on your continued contribution to informing citizens about Myanmar,” says Benjamin Sabbah , director of Journalism Trust Initiative “Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has created an intensely contested media landscape, where mis- and disinformation are increasingly deployed to reinforce state propaganda and the prevailing “official” narrative. Although Mizzima is already regarded as one of the most trusted ...
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Top court sets date to hear Suu Kyi detention appeal

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Friday, 22 October 2010 19:01 Phanida

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burma’s highest court on Wednesday agreed to hear final appeals from opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi regarding her continuing house arrest.

The appeal, also involving Suu Kyi’s two live-in assistants, will be heard next Friday, according to her lawyer.

“The court accepted the appeal yesterday [Wednesday]. It will be heard on October 29. I saw the notice at the court. We must now prepare the appeal,” Suu Kyi counsel Khin Htay Kywe told Mizzima. “After the hearing, the court will decide their cases within a week or two,”

Another of Suu Kyi’s lawyers, Kyi Win, also confirmed that her appeal would be heard by the five-member Supreme Court.

Nobel laureate Suu Kyi’s current sentence was set to expire on November 13. However, owing to the junta’s silence on the matter, her lawyers filed the appeal.

The 2008 constitution states its adoption replaces the statutes of the 1974 constitution. Therefore, contend her lawyers, the charges against the opposition leader should be dismissed.

Last August, Suu Kyi was charged under the 1975 State Protection Act and handed a three-year prison term for harbouring uninvited American John Yettaw for two days at her lakeside home. Khin Khin Win and her daughter, who lived with and cared for Burma’s democracy icon, were charged with abetting in the breach of law and were also given three-year terms. All sentences, however, were subsequently halved upon orders from Burmese junta leader Than Shwe.

The present appeal against the verdict is the third brought by Suu Kyi’s legal panel.

Recently relating her wish to communicate with younger generations via a Twitter account, Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for the better part of 15 years. Her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), is boycotting next month’s election.

The Rangoon Central Supreme Court on October 6 also accepted a lawsuit challenging the junta’s dissolution of the NLD.

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