Myanmar`s powerful using defamation to silence critics: Report
(WorldNews Asia)

Defamation cases have rocketed across Myanmar since de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi took power in the Southeast Asian country in April last year, a report says. The rights group Free Expression Myanmar (FEM) said in a report on Monday that the rich and powerful had intensified their use of draconian laws to muzzle civil society and the media over the past two years. The report noted that at least 97 cases had...