Burma Suspends Publication of Two News Weeklies

(4 Oct 08 - RV) Burma's military authorities have ordered two news weeklies to temporarily stop publishing for violating the country's strict press regulations. Authorities suspended the True News weekly for two months and The Action Times for one month. Reasons were not given for the suspensions, but it is believed to have stemmed from an article about the September 23^rd release of several political prisoners in one of the publications, and a photograph showing Burmese children working at a construction site in neighbouring Thailand in the other.
Director of the Burma Campaign UK, Anna Roberts, told us that the government requires all articles to go through a censorship process prior to publication.