The Yangon Police Force has announced that the suspected perpetrator of an attack in which a petrol bomb was hurled at State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence in Yangon will be prosecuted regardless of his medical condition.
Former political prisoners are still locked in a battle against depression and anxiety – the aftermath of decades of imprisonment and isolation.
Mental health patients—many of them victims of junta-era repression—suffer in silence due to cultural stigma and a lack of psychological health care.
A man charged with throwing a petrol bomb into the compound of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi earlier this year has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Win Naing, 48, was found guilty by a court in Yangon’s Bahan Township.
Many refugees across Southeast Asia have no access to citizenship and few rights in the country where they live.
No one here thought that leaflets could destroy riches and their possessors’ future plans so quickly. But in Burma, leaflets are not only capable of doing that — they can lead to death.
Karen Lead Story News Refugees
The concerns of ethnic Karen refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) were raised on Tuesday, World Refugee Day, over the lack of a clear plan for the return and reintegration of those going back to their homelands.
Analysis Contributor Lead Story Opinion
Perspectives on Burma’s waterways have been polarised into two competing positions: focusing on developing its vast hydropower potential and advocating for local communities’ needs and concerns.
The 18-year-old Somali immigrant was apparently driven to rage by reports of atrocities against Burma’s ethnic Rohingya community.
The NLD’s ongoing narcotics crackdown has caught many drug addicts, but health experts say they should be treated as patients, not punished.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Women's Issues
After decades of conflict, women in former war zones along Burma’s borders continue to struggle with unequal treatment, a new report finds.
The former monk Ashin Gambira, a leading figure in the 2007 Saffron Revolution, stepped out of prison today after serving what will hopefully be his last sentence.
Ashin Gambira, one of Burma’s most well-known dissidents, has been formally indicted at a Mandalay court six weeks after his arrest.
When her father died of AIDS in 2003, Pyae Phu Khaing* was just three years old, and only two years later her mother died of the same disease.
During the first hearing, Robert San Aung tried to get bail for his client on health grounds, as there is no proper psychiatric healthcare in prison, but the request was refused by the judge.
Feature Health Lead Story News Students
Despite soaring depression rates, mental health remains a foreign concept to many young people in Burma.
Culture Feature Health Lead Story News
Could Burmese traditional medicine fill the gap left by decades of underfunding and neglect?
A farmer who was imprisoned in Maubin prison for the murder of a policeman during land rights protests in 2013 has been sent to a psychiatric hospital.
Drugs Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video
Leaders from six Karen armed groups have formed a task force in order to combat drug production and use in the east Burmese state.
Analysis Contributor Ethnic issues Lead Story News Uncategorized
Why is poverty such a huge problem in Chin State? Rachel Fleming of Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) examines the causes and potential solutions from a human rights perspective.
After fleeing from the violence at the frontlines of Kachin state’s civil war, local citizens displaced along the Chinese border are finding themselves challenged to meet even basic standards of living
Despite Thein Sein’s repeated promises to end the conflict and recent moves to include the army in ceasefire negotiations, the president has still made no effort to hold the army to account for alleged abuses
Ashin Gambira, who is three years into a 63-year sentence, in declining health after suffering ‘daily’ abuse at the hands of prison guards
Acquaintances of Htoo Htoo Han in Australia say claims that he committed war crimes are false and part of an anti-govt strategy
42 Rohingya asylum-seekers continue their detention in Australia as elections in the country highlight the explosive issue of immigration
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
Oct 7, 2009 (DVB), A Burmese youth activist currently serving eight years in Rangoon's notorious Insein prison yesterday had his sentence extended by 10 years, sources close to his family[…]
Rosalie SmithMar 17, 2009 (DVB), Although being in Nu Pho camp feels like being in any little village peppered with bamboo huts, no one I spoke to there seemed to[…]
