Myanmar frees almost 5,000 prisoners in new year’s amnesty but no sign of Aung San Suu Kyi - Thousands released in holiday ...

Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing posed in a suit – it should have been a prison uniform - COMMENT: Seeing the architect of so many of Myanmar’s ills welcomed in Bangkok beggars belief, writes Benedict Rogers ...

The United Nations called for full amnesty for jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained since the 2021 coup as it condemned the junta’s more than 100 military strikes in the ...

Dozens of relatives and friends waited early on Thursday at the gate of Insein Prison, on the outskirts of Myanmar ... when ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Myanmar, is reported to have survived last week’s devastating earthquake unharmed in the prison cell where she is kept in solitary confinement.

Many political detainees have been held on a charge of incitement, a catch-all offense widely used to arrest critics of the ...

The head of Myanmar's military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country's traditional new ...