26 July 2023
There were demonstrations in Yangon to commemorate one year since the illegal execution...
07 July 2023
A political prisoner, U Sein Win, was tortured to death by the Myanmar junta in Myingyan...
11 May 2023
In her first mission to India, United Nations Special Envoy Ms Noeleen Heyzer has called...
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03 May 2023
Myanmar's junta pardoned more than 2,000 political prisoners to mark a Buddhist holiday...
 (File) Staff members of Myanmar correctional department close the main entrance of Insein prison before the release of detainees in Yangon, Myanmar, 19 October 2021. Photo: EPA
07 January 2023
Among more than 7,000 prisoners granted amnesty by Myanmar's junta this week were about...
09 December 2022
Political prisoners at Kyaikmaraw Prison in Mon State’s Mawlamyine Town have gone on...
Picture taken on August 5, 2010 shows Myanmar singer Saw Phoe Kwar posing at his house in Yangon. Photo: AFP
29 November 2022
Civil Society Organisation Progressive Voice has said that this month’s release of 161...
Relatives gather around a bus carrying prisoners being released outside the Insein prison in Yangon on November 17, 2022. Photo: AFP
19 November 2022
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) says it welcomes the release of 53 political...
16 December 2021
Wai Hin Soe, a political prisoner who protested during the “Silent Strike” on December 10...
MP U Lwin Maung Maung.
19 October 2021
Police re-arrested 10 detainees, including a parliamentarian of ruling National League...
13 August 2021
A total of 38 political prisoners were held in solitary confinement at Mandalay central...
(File) In this file photo taken on September 21, 2016, Myanmar's State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York. Photo: AFP
18 June 2021
As Aung San Suu Kyi turns 76 years of age, a group of women in Australia, known as WAM (...

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