WASHINGTON – The National Press Club called on Myanmar to immediately release an Associated Press journalist who was arrested last week while photographing security forces charging at anti-coup protesters.
Authorities have charged Thein Zaw and five other members of the media with violating a public order law that could see them imprisoned for up to three years.
A video of the arrest shows Zaw being quickly surrounded and held in a chokehold as handcuffs are placed on him. The Associated Press has also called for Zaw's immediate release and condemned his arrest and “arbitrary detention.” In a statement Thursday, National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews, AP's assignment manager for U.S.