Faced with public discontent, fear of losing power has driven Zambia’s president to change the constitution and enact repressive laws ahead of next year’s election
Four pro-democracy activists have been executed by the military, while at least 11 759 people have been detained and many have been sentenced to death
Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with illegally importing walkie-talkies, sedition and corruption, and faces decades in jail if convicted.
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
Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act
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
The London-based global human rights organisation said it was revoking the Ambassador of Conscience Award it gave Suu Kyi in 2009
Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists have filed an appeal against their seven-year jail sentence
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were each imprisoned for seven years last week for breaching the country’s hardline Official Secrets Act
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
The Pope expressed that he had taken up the Rohingya cause in private in Myanmar, but a few days before, he chose not to publicly air their plight.
In an unannounced trip, she made her first visit an area that has seen most of its Rohingya Muslim population forced out by an army campaign.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s deputy will attend the UN general assembly to respond to questions on the Rohingya Muslims.
The Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority, have faced decades of persecution in Myanmar where they are regarded as illegal immigrants.
The UN says 87 000 members of persecuted Muslim community have crossed into Bangladesh since violence erupted on August 25.
And the Companions of OR Tambo award for friendly foreigners goes to … the Guptas, of course.
