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The United States led governments around the world in calling for the restoration of Myanmar’s democracy on Monday after the military staged a coup, arresting civilian leader…

In early December, the International Court of Justice heard arguments filed by the Gambia against Myanmar for violations of the Genocide Convention. This included a request for…

Myanmar’s leader personally faces allegations while avoiding the task of changing the country’s trajectory

Suu Kyi was once the darling of the foreign media, but her silence over the persecuted Rohingya minority has drawn widespread condemnation

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were mobbed by media as they stepped out of Yangon’s notorious Insein prison after their lengthy detention

Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act

In 2018, the area of opium poppy cultivation in the country dropped by 10% to 37 300 hectares from the previous year

Ruling decried as ‘another injustice’ against Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were investigating 2017 killings of Rohingya

Their conviction in September sparked widespread global condemnation

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in Yangon on December 12 and handed seven-year jail sentences under a state secrets law

​A UN probe is calling for six members of Myanmar’s military to be investigated for ‘genocide’ against the Rohingya

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were each imprisoned for seven years last week for breaching the country’s hardline Official Secrets Act

Following the International Criminal Court’s unprecedented ruling, Myanmar says it has no obligation to respect it

On Monday, a UN probe detailed evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity ‘perpetrated on a massive scale’ towards the Rohingya.

Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, have been detained in Myanmar’s infamous Insein prison since December in the case which has ignited a global outcry