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Myanmar army plans trials for abuses in Rakhine
Published on 22/02/2020
» YANGON: Myanmar’s army says it will hold more courts-martial for alleged abuses committed against Rohingya Muslims, after a government-appointed commission said soldiers committed war crimes.
Suu Kyi faces spotlight in Rohingya genocide trial
News, Larry Jagan, Published on 11/12/2019
» Today, international attention is firmly focused on Aung San Suu Kyi as she faces the judges in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague and presents Myanmar's side of the story.
US sanctions Myanmar generals over Rohingya abuses
Reuters, Published on 17/07/2019
» WASHINGTON: The United States announced sanctions on Tuesday against the Myanmar military's Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and other leaders it said were responsible for extrajudicial killings of Rohingya Muslims, barring them from entry to the United States.
Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya killings freed early
Reuters, Published on 27/05/2019
» YANGON: Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters.
Pardons due to journos
News, Editorial, Published on 20/04/2019
» Two Myanmar journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been locked up in Yangon's Insein Prison for almost 500 days for allegedly "exposing state secrets".
Myanmar Reuters journalists lose appeal against 7-year sentence
AFP, Published on 11/01/2019
» YANGON: Two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar had their appeal dismissed Friday, dismaying colleagues and tearful family members who had held slim hopes they would walk free.
Myanmar Reuters journalists appeal seven-year sentence
AFP, Published on 24/12/2018
» YANGON: Lawyers lodged an appeal Monday to free two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on Myanmar's Rohingya crisis, decrying the sentence as a "mistake" that has already resulted in the pair being locked up for a year.
Thumbs up as Myanmar Reuters reporters mark year in jail
AFP, Published on 12/12/2018
» YANGON: Messages of solidarity poured in Wednesday from around the world on the one-year anniversary of the arrest of two Myanmar Reuters journalists who exposed a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.
93 Rohingya fleeing by boat sent back to Myanmar camps
AFP, Published on 28/11/2018
» YANGON: Nearly 100 Rohingya Muslims were forced back to Myanmar's Rakhine state after being detained at sea en route to Malaysia, police said Wednesday, stirring fears of a fresh refugee boat crisis.
Jailed Myanmar Reuters reporters file appeal
AFP, Published on 05/11/2018
» YANGON - Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists filed an appeal Monday against their seven-year jail sentence linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, the news agency said.