Shillong, Dec 6: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, urges the military regime of Myanmar to release all media professionals before the proposed multi-phase elections starting on December 28.

The forum also insisted on abolishing new election interference law which continues harassing scribes and social media users in the name of cracking down against anti-nationals across the Southeast Asian nation.

The Buddhist majority country of nearly 55 million people is now witnessing a kind of civil war, where the Min Aung Hlaing-led Tatmadaw continue fighting against pro-democracy armed resistance units and in various battles the government forces face defeats. Almost half of the townships have gone out of military’s control, where the voting will be impossible

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