All posts tagged "Myanmar"

“Truth. Vote Vivek.”

Black baseball caps emblazoned with this message made their way around the Iowa State Fair last month, and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sported the hat before participating in Fox News’ Republican presidential debate held in Milwaukee, Wis., less than two weeks later.

But the hats have a truth of their own....

Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign hats that were made in a repressive country still found their way out on the campaign trail last week even after the Republican presidential candidate said he’d stop distributing them.

According to a Raw Story source who requested anonymity to protect their job, “Truth. Vote Vivek.” hats were handed out as recently as last Wednesday at a campaign event in Iowa. And Ramaswamy posted a video on X on Saturday showing him personally putting the black baseball cap on a supporter.

Each was several days after Raw Story broke the news that Ramaswamy’s black baseball caps were manufactured in Myanmar, a country rife with human rights atrocities and led by a military junta that has close ties with China — a country with which Ramaswamy is campaigning to cut dependence. ...

Doha (AFP) - A US journalist freed from a prison in Myanmar just days after being handed an 11-year sentence said Monday he wasn't "starved or beaten" -- but was worried his ordeal would never end. Danny Fenster, looking gaunt after his six-month imprisonment, said he was held for no reason but not mistreated by the Myanmar authorities. The 37-year-old American -- who was handed an 11-year sentence last week for incitement, unlawful association and breaching visa rules -- was freed one day before he was to face terror and sedition charges that could have seen him jailed for life. "I was arrest......

Bangkok (AFP) - An American journalist jailed for 11 years by Myanmar's junta is humble, positive and inspired by George Orwell's writings against authoritarianism, his colleague told AFP, as he faces a second trial for sedition and terrorism. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government in February and launched a bloody crackdown that has killed more than 1,200 people, according to a local monitoring group, and also ensnared the media. The junta's war on dissent has seen Myanmar overtake Saudi Arabia and North Korea in jailing journalists -- since Februa......

Yangon (AFP) - Myanmar's junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, his lawyer said Wednesday. The Southeast Asian country has been mired in chaos since a February coup, with the military trying to crush widespread democracy protests and stamp out dissent. Danny Fenster, who was arrested as he tried to leave the country in May, was charged under anti-terror and sedition laws, his lawyer Than Zaw Aung told AFP. Conviction under the counter-terrorism law carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.  T......

Eight people were killed and several others injured late Friday and overnight in an ongoing crackdown by Myanmar's military on protesters denouncing a coup, local media and witnesses reported. In the former capital and biggest city Yangon, three people were killed when security forces cracked down on demonstrators in several parts of the city late Friday. Three other demonstrators were killed on Saturday during protests in the city of Mandalay in the country's centre, according to a witness and a dpa journalist. Two protesters were also killed in protests on Saturday in Pyay, a township locate......