April 14 (UPI) --Myanmar detained 20 writers and public intellectuals last year, the most of any country in the world, according to a new report Wednesday by advocacy group PEN America. The surge in ...

Myanmar’s military government detained more writers, academics, and public intellectuals than any other country last year, as it sought ruthlessly to stamp out the resistance to its February 2021 coup ...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's junta has freed a former minister in the ousted government of Aung Sang Suu Kyi and a well-known writer among political detainees given amnesty to mark the country's independence ...

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In the face of authoritarian resurgence around the world, PEN America's Freedom to Write Index documents cases of writers and public intellectuals who have been unjustly locked up for their exercise ...