Hereby I would like to call up the attention of all tourist are planning to travel to remote areas in Myanmar/Burma. At the last week of 2010 my friend was traveling alone far from the capital of Burma with the propose of taking pictures and filming the daily life of Burmese people when the secret police suddenly stopped him. Soon after he was jailed in a small and dirty cell without food and the company of two armed prison guards. At the police station besides the armed prison guards about 10 other men took pictures of him and shut video during they interrogated my friend. His laptop, camera and the camcorder was temporary confiscated until they made copy of the documents, files, etc.... My friend entered to the country with American passport. After 5 days fortunately he was released and deported to Thailand.
Note:
- He is an American-Hungarian citizen.
- He entered to the country as a tourist (private person) with visa.
- He doesn't works to media.
- He used his official American passport, but the place of born in this document is Hungary.
- U Win Tin former political leader was secretly interviewed by two Hungarian reporters this year while other international journalists (American, Japanese, British, etc...) were jailed in Burma or luckily deported to Thailand.
French visual artist "guerrilla artist" JR who exhibits freely in the streets of of the world visited Cambodia in 2009. as the part of the project "Inside Out". I took this photo in Phnom Penh just a view days later where hi displayed the portraits of evicted people. The government was quite fast to react and removed it within a week. In 2010 JR has been awarded TED Prize. 
