Members of the Peacock Generation, including Ma Su Yadanar Myint (centre), speak to the media after a hearing at Botahtaung Township Court on November 18, 2019. (Thuya Zaw | Frontier)
Members of the Peacock Generation, including Ma Su Yadanar Myint (centre), speak to the media after a hearing at Botahtaung Township Court on November 18, 2019. (Thuya Zaw | Frontier)

As NLD prepares for second term, activists urge defamation reform

An advocacy group has proposed four options for reforming Myanmar’s tangle of criminal defamation clauses, which are being used ever more frequently under the National League for Democracy government.

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