Journalists will be able to enter Parliament today to cover the first session over two decades, despite promises to the contrary.It is also not clear whether media can report on future sessions, the President of the Committee on professional conduct (CPC), Ko Ko, said DVB.
"CPC previously checked with the me [Ministry of Information] and said that there is no plan to invite journalists to Naypyidaw opening Parliament", he said. This comes despite the announcement by the Minister from Myanmar, Kyaw Hsan information, January 17, reporters would be allowed.
Some correspondents of foreign media 18 arrived in Naypyidaw yesterday to cover the event, but a photojournalist said today that it would be impossible to take a photo Parliament because the road to it was barricaded with barbed wire.
An elected MP said today that on condition of anonymity two journalists of newspaper national Burmese news were visited by governmental authorities in their guest house in the capital, who took their names.
Burma has some stricter media laws in the world and prohibits the filming of the so-called sensitive materials which include Hansard unless expressly authorized to do so. The Act on electronics, filming without permission of journalists face imprisonment of 10 years.
CPC, which is formally responsible for the protection of the interests of journalists and to issue guidelines for the practice of media, has been implemented recently by the censor board of the Government, which also imposes draconian Burma press laws.
Analysts have sought to hinder the expectations for the first parliamentary session since last November's election. Both houses are dominated by Solidarity Union pro-junta and Development Party (USDP), which won the 80% of the vote, while one-quarter of the seats have been reserved for officials military pre-nommé carriers effectively veto power.
Parliament met in 1988 before the eviction of the first dictator of Burma, Ne Win, but he must return to March 1962 for the last time that he met under civilian rule.
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