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    Crime Lead Story News

    One year on, alleged mastermind of Ko Ni’s assassination still at large

    One year after the shocking assassination of Burmese legal scholar Ko Ni, the primary suspect in the killing remains at large, and law enforcement authorities continue to face scrutiny over their handling of the case.

    Lead Story Media News

    Police drop charges in Naypyidaw drone case against journalists

    Police have decided to withdraw criminal charges filed against three journalists and their driver under Burma’s Export and Import Law and Immigration Act after the foursome were detained in October for attempting to fly a drone over the parliamentary complex in Naypyidaw.

    Lead Story Media Nayyidaw News

    Two foreign reporters face additional immigration charges tied to drone incident

    Three journalists, two of them foreigners, and their driver attended a fourth court hearing on Monday in relation to a drone that prosecutors say was flown illegally near Parliament last month, with the non-Burmese duo hit with an additional charge.

    Features Lead Story News

    Trafficked on Burmese passports, Indian housemaids struggle to return home

    Burma has become an emerging hub for traffickers seeking to send Indian girls to Southeast Asia to become domestic workers.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    With a stroke of red pen, Rohingya fear losing right to return

    Since security forces swept into their villages late last year, around 75,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled across the border to Bangladesh. Many now fear that authorities in Burma could make their displacement permanent.

    Lead Story Mandalay Division News Religion

    Dutchman faces 2 years for insulting Buddhism

    Klaas Haijtema, 30, is alleged to have walked into a dharma hall during chanting, with his shoes on. He then pulled out the plug connected to the speaker.

    Crime Lead Story News

    Man nabbed for illegal border crossing

    A man from Arakan State who has been imprisoned in Thailand and China for illegal entry faces similar charges in Burma after crossing the border at Muse in Shan State.

    Human Rights Lead Story News

    Gambira released as trespassing charges dropped

    Gambira, one of the leaders of the 2007 Saffron Revolution, has been released from prison today after charges against him for alleged offenses committed in 2012 are dropped.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thai police say no to relaxed rules for migrants

    Thai police oppose measures to relax regulations on migrant workers, saying they breach international immigration principles and will adversely affect Thailand’s migrant labour management.

    Human Rights Justice Lead Story News

    Gambira sentenced to six months with hard labour

    The sentence, handed down today in Mandalay, was denounced by the former monk who led the 2007 Saffron Revolution.

    Arakan Lead Story Migrants Issues News Rohingya

    20 sentenced in Arakan for trafficking boatpeople

    The 20 were each sentenced to five years in connection with a ship carrying 208 migrants that was intercepted by the Burmese navy last month.

    Crime Lead Story News

    Eight Chinese ‘militants’ jailed for weapons raid

    Eight Chinese nationals were sentenced to jail terms of up to 13 years after being found guilty of weapons possession, illegal entry into Burma, and illegal possession of radio communication devices.

    News Politics

    Petition campaign launched to free imprisoned activist

    A humans right group kicked off a petition campaign calling for the release of activist Aye Myint who is serving a life sentence after being charged with plotting a bomb attack in Rangoon four years ago

    Analysis

    The Rohingya and the denial of the ‘right to have rights’

    The Rohingyas remain one of the most persecuted and vulnerable communities in the world after state-sponsored exclusion policies made the group aliens in their own land

    Analysis

    Burma’s troublesome census

    As the country plans for its first official census in decades, several hurdles must be overcome if all of Burma’s ethnic minority groups are to be included

    Health News

    Tortured activist dies days after jail release

    Thet Nwe underwent bouts of severe torture and was sent to a psychiatric ward twice during his term in Insein prison before his 13 January release

    Media News

    Jailing of DVB reporters ‘arbitrary’: UN

    Asian rights group welcomes decision by UN body to condemn sentencing of Sithu Zeya and U Zeya to lengthy jail terms

    Media News

    Jailed DVB reporter wins top artists’ prize

    Win Maw honoured with Freedom to Create award for risking freedom to ‘give voice to democratic movements for social change’

    Health News Politics

    Family pleads for release of ailing prisoner

    Family of gravely ill political prisoner plead for his release before he dies so he can see his family and taste freedom again

    Media News

    DVB VJ given additional 10 yrs in jail

    Young DVB journalist Sithu Zeya is handed a 10 year extension to his jail term under the Electronics Act in a Rangoon court

    News Politics

    Govt reaffirms policy of racial profiling

    Immigration minister Khin Yi defends govt policy of making Muslims apply to the military to move between towns, as a Muslim NLD member is sentenced to one and a half years under the immigration act

    Media News

    Jailed DVB reporter faces further charges in court

    Jailed Democratic Voice of Burma reporter has appeared in a court hearing inside Insein Prison compounds yesterday where he was facing an additional charge under the Electronic Act

    News Politics

    Arrest dampens Martyrs’ Day jubilance

    Arrest of Muslim man and National League for Democracy member highlights ongoing discrimination by Burmese government

    News Politics

    Released Canadian speaks of ordeal

    Ron Zakreski freed after nearly three weeks in custody in Burma and says he was unaware he had crossed over the border

    News Politics

    Canadian photographer in court

    62-year-old had crossed to Wawlay in Karen state before being arrested whilst taking photographs and sent to Myawaddy

    News Politics

    Bomb suspect lawyer ‘denied case report’

    Eleven Karen youths in first hearing for alleged bomb plot but lawyer claims to know little about the details of the charges

    Media News

    DVB video journalist gets 13 years

    Father of jailed Sithu Zeya had led a team of VJs inside Burma until he was arrested for taking photos of the aftermath of the Rangoon bombings

    News Politics

    Court bars Rangoon bomber’s family

    Burmese intelligence overrules judge’s decision to allow family of Phyo Wei Aung, who is accused of being behind the Rangoon bombings, to attend his hearing

    News Politics

    Murder charge for ‘Rangoon bomber’

    Phyo Wei Aung facing a raft of charges for the deadly Rangoon grenade attacks as wife claims he is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day

    News Politics

    Rangoon bomb suspect put in solitary

    Phyo Wei Aung barred from contact with other inmates in Insein prison and complains that he is being denied basic prisoners’ rights such as exercise

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