Myanmar: 80 Myanmar and Thai NGOs Condemn Legal Action over Tanintharyi Tin Mine Report

May 15, 2017 | Frontier Myanmar
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Eighty NGOs, including 56 from Myanmar, have condemned a Thai company’s decision to sue a reporter with Bangkok’s Nation newspaper over a report about a tin mine in Tanintharyi Region, the daily reported on May 15. A joint statement by the groups on May 14 demanded that mining company Myanmar Pongpipat Co Ltd immediately withdraws all criminal defamation proceedings against the reporter, Mr Pratch Rujivanarom, and the Nation, the newspaper said.