Sut Ring Pan

Sut Ring Pan (; born ), also known by her pen name Pu Noi Tsawms, is a Burmese freelance journalist. In 2025, she was sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison on charges of terrorism and sedition, which was criticised by human rights groups.

Personal life Sut Ring Pan is Kachin and was born and raised in Tanai, Kachin State. Prior to the 2021 coup d'état, she had been a beauty pageant contestant in local competitions, and had hoped to represent Myanmar internationally. Following the coup, her father, who had campaigned for Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy in previous elections, was arrested, prompting Sut Ring Pan and her family to temporarily flee Tanai.

Career Sut Ring Pan trained as a journalist with The 74 Media, a media outlet covering northern Myanmar, while operating at a second-hand clothing stall in Tanai. After initially interviewing sources for other journalists, she subsequently underwent an internship in Laiza, following which she became employed as a junior reporter and worked for a time in Thailand. She was detained at the military-run Yay Kyi Ai interrogation centre for 22 days, before being transferred to Mingala Taungnyunt's police station and later Insein Prison near Yangon. It was alleged that Sut Ring Pan had been assaulted during interrogations, causing injuries to her chest, hips and thighs.

On 16 May 2025, a court at Insein Prison sentenced Sut Ring Pan to three years in prison for incitement and spreading false news under section 505(a) of the penal code after being accused of publishing material that was critical of the government. On 2 December 2025, the Western District Court in Yangon sentenced Sut Ring Pan was sentenced to a combined sentence of 13 years imprisonment on charges of incitement and terrorism. She received a 10 year sentence under the section 50(j) of the Counterterrorism for her reporting.

Sut Ring Pan intends to appeal her sentence.

Response Sut Ring Pan's initial sentence in May 2025 was not widely publicised; it was later confirmed that her family had kept details of her arrest and sentence secret with the hopes that the court would be more lenient in her subsequent trial.

The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Burmese authorities to "immediately and unconditionally" release Sut Ring Pan, accusing them of using "vague and overboard laws" to prosecute journalists.

The Independent Myanmar Journalists Association condemned the decision to imprison Sut Ring Pan, and urged the international community to take "effective and decisive action" against the Burmese military in its ongoing targeting of journalists.