‘The darkest days are coming’: Myanmar’s journalists suffer at hands of junta

Journalism has been outlawed in all but name since the coup, with reporters and editors fleeing the country or leading double lives to survive

As a cyclone rolled over the Bay of Bengal on 24 May, American journalist Danny Fenster, 37, contemplated the brooding skies near a terminal window at Yangon international airport.

For a while, the threat of foreigners being seized at the airport by Myanmar's military was real, but after watching international reporters exit the country safely in April, the Michigan native was more worried about turbulence.