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Myanmar’s military junta has released five journalists jailed under arbitrary incitement and dissent charges in an amnesty on so-called ‘humanitarian grounds’ of 2,153 prisoners on May 3. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Myanmar Journalists Network (MJN), in urging the junta to immediately release all journalists still in detention, and calling on the international community to do all it can to resolve the crisis in Myanmar and hold perpetrators of gross violations of international human rights law to account.

YANGON: Myanmar´s junta pardoned more than 2,000 political prisoners to mark a Buddhist holiday on Wednesday, triggering tearful reunions outside jails but also demands that the many others...

Pro-junta forces have torched more than 1,000 homes in four villages over five days.

Thursday, 29 Jul 2021 08:15 AM MYT A volunteer fills an oxygen tank as Covid-19 cases surge in Mandalay, Myanmar July 13, 2021. — Phoe Thar via Reuters Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates. YANGON, July 29 — Junta authorities in Myanmar are seeking help from the international community to tackle the coronavirus, state media said Wednesday, as the impoverished country looks beyond ally China in its struggle to beat back a new wave. The nation has been in turmoil since the military took power in February, with many hospitals ill-equipped to cop...

July 19, 2021 A volunteer fills an oxygen tank in Mandalay, Myanmar, on July 13, 2021. Reuters YANGON - For a week, 21-year-old student Phoe Thar has been out by dawn to gather oxygen cylinders from the homes of coronavirus sufferers in Myanmar's second city of Mandalay. He and fellow volunteers line the tanks up outside charities for filling and returning, trying to save lives in a country whose health system has largely collapsed since a Feb 1 coup and which now faces its worst surge of Covid-19 infections. Funded by donors on social media, Phoe Thar and his team are part of a growing gras...