Censorship in Myanmar and Kyaw Soe Oo of Reuters, were charged and jailed on December 12, 2017 by authorities near Rangoon for concealing 'secret papers' which violated a colonial era law. The two Reuters journalists had been covering the predominantly Muslim Rohingyas' exodus from the country due to persecution. On September 3, 2018, the journalists were both sentenced to seven years in prison sparking outrage among the international community. General: Censorship in Myanmar Censorship in Myanmar (also called Burma) results from government policies in controlling and regulating certain information, particularly on religious, ethnic, political, and moral grounds. Freedom of speech and the press
History of the Jews in Myanmar nationalist Burmese government. One synagogue survives in Yangon, the capital, and in the 21st century, it attracts an increasing number of tourists. The first recorded Jew in the country was Solomon Gabirol, who served as a commander in the army of King Alaungpaya in the 18th century. But it was in the mid-19th century, during the British colonial period, that Jewish merchants from Iraq and India began establishing sizable communities in Rangoon and Mandalay. The Baghdadi Jews had emigrated from Iraq to escape persecution and being subject to pogroms; they comprised most of the immigrants. Cochin Jews and the Bene