Two elderly men died when their houses were burned down by junta troops in a Sagaing region village, locals told RFA. The men were too old to flee following a previous arson attack and were still living in Budalin township’s Shwe Taung village when a military column entered on Monday and torched 13 houses. “A […]

A junta court in Myanmar has sentenced the country’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to another seven years in prison on five counts of alleged corruption, bringing the total number of years she must serve in detention to 33, sources close to Naypyidaw Prison Court told RFA Friday. Former president Win Myint received the […]

Myanmar’s junta continues to impose harsh prison sentences on student activists, sentencing seven of them to prison terms of between two and 25 years over the past seven days. The longest sentence was handed down by Yangon’s Insein Prison Court on Tuesday to Kaung Sat, from the city’s Myanmar Maritime University, according to his students’ […]

Junta troops killed seven residents of a village in central Myanmar’s Mandalay region, locals told RFA. The men were arrested on Saturday night and villagers found their bodies over the next two days. They identified the men as 62-year-old Sein Maung Myint; 50-year-old Sein Aung; 43-year-old Kyaw Tin; 37-year-old Swe Lin Aung; 38-year-old Myo Naing; […]

A secret court in Myanmar on Wednesday sentenced the lawyer representing a leader of the former ruling political party to 15 years in prison with hard labor, according to an attorney with knowledge of the country’s judicial proceedings. The military tribunal in Mandalay’s Obo Prison sentenced Ywat Nu Aung, who represented Zaw Myint Maung, a […]

About 185 gaunt and bone-tired Rohingya refugees landed on the coast of Pidie regency in Indonesia’s Aceh province Monday, police said, as reports emerged that another boatload of Rohingya may have sunk at sea. Two NGOs confirmed to BenarNews that the new arrivals were from a boat that was at sea for about a month […]