Myanmar Regime Jails Journalists for Incitement
Ko Aung Kyaw of DVB and Ko Zaw Zaw of Mizzima were given two-year terms by a prison court in southern Myanmar.
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Ko Aung Kyaw of DVB and Ko Zaw Zaw of Mizzima were given two-year terms by a prison court in southern Myanmar.
(Reuters) - Three demonstrators were killed in Myanmar on Monday, witnesses said, while shops, factories and banks were closed in the main city Yangon in protests against last month's military coup. Security forces were also deployed at hospitals and universities, state media said. Two of the victims died of gunshot wounds to the head in the northern town of Myitkyina, the witnesses said. It was not immediately clear who fired on the protesters although both police and the military were at the scene. Photos posted on Facebook showed the bodies of two men lying on the street. Witnesses said the...
Witnesses said troops fired shots in the air at several places around the Southeast Asian nation and were checking cars in central Yangon to prevent protesters from gathering.
An official from deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody after he was arrested early on Tuesday, the second party figure to die in detention in two days, as security forces broke up street protests against the military...
At least nine trade unions have called on Myanmarese people to stop work.