Myanmar Prison News Today

Eight more were injured after police, guards and soldiers opened fire on the inmates, an advocacy organization said.

They will be held until they are 18, among 16 others sentenced to prison terms in Sagaing.

They demonstrated against torture and the death penalty.

Set Aung was deputy finance minister under Myanmar’s ousted government.

Banyar Soe Htet now faces a total of 84 years behind bars.

At least two bombs exploded outside a prison in Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 18.

NAYPYIDAW, April 7 — In one drawing, dozens of men sit crammed into a single room, hunched with their knees together, every inch of space occupied. In another, they lie back to back on the floor, their faces straining with discomfort. Fourteen sketches smuggled out of Myanmar’s Insein Prison...

Myanmar political prisoners harshly interrogated: Japan journalist A Japanese freelance journalist who spent nearly four weeks in a Myanmar prison before returning to Japan on Friday said the prison where he was being kept held many political prisoners who had been subjected to harsh interrogations. Yuki Kitazumi said in an online interview from a hotel outside Tokyo on Saturday night that he will work from Japan to help junta-ruled Myanmar return to democracy, adding those incarcerated in the ...

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