Committee to Protect Bloggers

Given the press coverage of the WIA Report, which included reference to a list of Burmese arrestees we posted a link to, I thought some clarification would be useful. Neither the source of the report, Burmese blogger Niknayman, nor the CPB, nor Duncan, the guy who formatted the list we used, have ever maintained that […]

Update: From Mizzima News.
Authorities at Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison for the first time allowed family members a meeting with detained Burmese blogger Nay Phone Latt.
Daw Khin Than, mother of Nay Phone Latt (Nay Myo Kyaw), and his brother went to the prison on Monday after Thingan Kyun Township police informed them that the Burmese blogger […]

Burmese blogger Niknayman, who was central to getting news out about the country during the recent crackdown, wrote us this morning, enclosing a report on the anti-blogger efforts of the tinhorns during and after the crackdown. You can download a copy of the document, which contains the screenshots the blogger mentions, below.

Attack on Burmese Blogs […]

Mizzima reports that the tinhorns in Burma have, through the country’s two ISPs, blocked access to the Blogger.com blogging platform (also known as Blogspot).

In a bid to stop the flow of information outside Burma one of the most popular blog sites www.blogger.com has been banned by the Myanmar Post and Telecomm Ministry as of […]

According to Mizzima, via IFEX, the Burmese Internet is down again, as of November 1. Myanmar Teleport, one of only two ISPs in the country, have blamed it on a technical problem. That seems unlikely. The protest that took place yesterday in Pakokku might account for the suspension. During the previous protests, the tinhorns downed […]

A YouTube playlist of recent events in Burma.

From Eightfold via Burma Underground via Dave Lucas.

An article in Forbes today said the Burmese internet is being reconnected to the outside world. The reporter says, “Researchers at the OpenNet Initiative reported Friday that the country’s only Internet service provider, Myanmar Infotech, had begun relaying data again sometime Thursday.” I’m not sure where they’ve said this. I can’t find it on their […]

I spoke with Seth Mydans, a reporter for the New York Times who’s been covering Burma. When he looked at Niknayman’s Cbox account, he noted that a great deal of the material posted in the last days indicated access to foreign media, which was unlikely (though not impossible) from inside the country. Even allowing for […]

At the bottom of the central sidebar is Niknayman’s cbox, code courtesy Marshall. Grab the code on his ReadWriteWeb post and let’s get it viral.