MYANMAR: Yangon court rejects bail request for detained Australian journalist, charged with breaching visa regulations

Record ID: 555867

  • Title: MYANMAR: Yangon court rejects bail request for detained Australian journalist, charged with breaching visa regulations
  • Date: 25th February 2011
  • Summary: YANGON, MYANMAR (FEBRUARY 24, 2011) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF KAMARYUT TOWNSHIP COURT SECURITY GUARDS VARIOUS OF STAFF VISITING ROSS DUNKLEY, EDITOR OF THE MYANMAR TIMES COURT'S SECURITY GUARDS ESCORTING DUNKLEY OUT OF COURT'S DETENTION TO COURT BUILDING DUNKLEY ENTERING COURT ROOM PEOPLE FLOCKING OUTSIDE COURT ROOM MYANMAR TIMES STAFFS OUTSIDE COURT ROOM VARIOUS OF COURT'S SECURITY GUARDS ESCORTING DUNKLEY LEAVING COURT ROOM AND COVERING HIM FROM PHOTOGRAPHERS TO RETURN TO COURT DETENTION EXTERIOR OF COURT
  • Embargoed: 12th March 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Myanmar, Myanmar
  • Country: Myanmar
  • Topics: Communications
  • Reuters ID: LVAFEWDD4ZYPX16NCH0T0W3VL15
  • Story Text: The Australian editor of Myanmar's English newspaper had a bail request refused by a Yangon court on Thursday (February 24).
    Ross Dunkley, editor of The Myanmar Times, was arrested in Yangon airport on his return from overseas trip on February 10 and is being held at Myanmar's notorious Insein prison with hundreds of political inmates.
    Dunkley, 55, was initially charged by Yangon's police of assaulting a woman, but later the case was withdrawn. He is still charged with breaching visa regulations by Myanmar immigration. The court adjourned the hearing to March 3.
    The co-founder of the Myanmar Times is a key shareholder in Phnom Penh Post publisher, Post Media and was coming back from Japan when he was detained.
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