Pardon frees more than 2,100 Myanmar political prisoners
The releases began on Wednesday, but may take a few days to be completed
The releases began on Wednesday, but may take a few days to be completed
Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory in last year's general election, but the military claimed extensive electoral fraud, which independent poll watchers dispute.
At roughly 4 a.m., a landslide in Kachin State's Hpakant region happened (2130 GMT on Tuesday)
A Myanmar court on Monday sentenced ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison for flouting COVID-19 rules
A US federal judge has ordered social media platform Facebook to hand over records related to accounts it had shut down in 2018 and were linked to the anti-Rohingya violence in Myanmar, Reuters reported on Thursday.
<p>In Myanmar, at least 12 people were killed in firing by the security forces as the protests against the military government continued for the 42nd day yesterday. According to media reports, 5 people were killed and several others injured when police opened fire on a sit-in protest in Mandalay. One person was killed in Pyay […]</p>
<p>In Myanmar, it was the most violent day yesterday in the ongoing protest against the military government. United Nations Special Envoy Christine Schraner Burgener said in New York that since the coup happened in Myanmar on 1st of February, it was the bloodiest day as 38 people died in a single day. She said, in […]</p>
<p>In Myanmar, at least 18 people were killed today as police and armed forces unleashed force on the protestors demanding restoration of civilian government and release of the deposed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. The office of the High Commissioner of UN Human Rights organisation said in a statement today that it has received […]</p>
<p>Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy (NLD) said on Monday. The move came after days of escalating tension between the civilian government and the powerful military that stirred fears of […]</p>