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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Asian rights group welcomes decision by UN body to condemn sentencing of Sithu Zeya and U Zeya to lengthy jail terms
Win Maw honoured with Freedom to Create award for risking freedom to ‘give voice to democratic movements for social change’
Family of gravely ill political prisoner plead for his release before he dies so he can see his family and taste freedom again
Young DVB journalist Sithu Zeya is handed a 10 year extension to his jail term under the Electronics Act in a Rangoon court
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
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
Arrest of Muslim man and National League for Democracy member highlights ongoing discrimination by Burmese government
Ron Zakreski freed after nearly three weeks in custody in Burma and says he was unaware he had crossed over the border
62-year-old had crossed to Wawlay in Karen state before being arrested whilst taking photographs and sent to Myawaddy
Eleven Karen youths in first hearing for alleged bomb plot but lawyer claims to know little about the details of the charges
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
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
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
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
