The family of a 19-year-old activist from Mandalay is concerned for his well-being after being unable to contact him or obtain information on his condition or whereabouts since his arrest by junta...
Chinese authorities urged the Myanmar military council’s ministry of commerce this week to reopen border crossings previously closed to control the spread of Covid-19, according to sources active...
A freelance journalist based in Myawaddy, Karen State—across the border from Thailand—has been charged with violating Section 505a of the Penal Code for incitement, according to a family...
An anti-dictatorship protest leader from Sagaing Region’s Chaung-U Township was handed a two-year jail sentence for incitement on Wednesday in a junta court inside Monywa Prison, where he had been...
On the morning of March 8, two men from villages in Sagaing Region’s Yinmarbin Township took their elderly relatives to a monastery in Letpan Taw, a village surrounded on three sides by the Yamar...
Yangon resident Hlaing Htwe* takes out an old inverter to make sure that his family has light after the sun goes down. It has been 10 years or more since he last had to use it regularly. Now,...
Three women in southern Rakhine State have been jailed for 10 years each after junta prosecutors accused them of funding the People’s Defence Force (PDF) and the National Unity Government (NUG). ...
A court inside Yangon’s Insein Prison last week gave three-year sentences to 10 people–a journalist and nine student activists–for their opposition to the military dictatorship. Among those...
Officials at a sportswear factory in Yangon’s Shwepyitha Township asked more than 20 employees to return to work in late December after they were fired two months earlier for organising and...
A married couple who were arrested last year for protesting against the junta in southeastern Myanmar’s Dawei Township have each been hit with heavy prison sentences, a friend of theirs has...
The Myanmar military set fire to multiple civilian cars travelling along the Asian Highway in Karen State on Monday, according to a spokesperson for a local anti-junta defence force fighting...
The Myanmar military’s Defence Services Academy (DSA) in Pyin Oo Lwin, which typically recruits at least 500 cadets annually, received only 22 applications from the major recruiting ground of...