A protester holds up a poster featuring Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration against the military coup in front of the ...

The Burma Campaign UK rights group has calculated that the Nobel laureate has spent 19 years in captivity since 1989 as her ...

Generation leader U Mya Aye welcomes criticism of the Ngwe Saung statement and stresses that federalism and democracy must go ...

To one Hongkonger, it seemed like a dream job – a purchasing agent transporting goods from Thailand to Japan. It quickly ...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a ...

Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a ...

Nobel laureate and former leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains imprisoned. Listen to Story 180 foreign prisoners to be released on Myanmar's independence day Military seized power in Myanmar in 2021 Aung ...

She is serving a 27-year sentence after being found guilty of a variety of criminal charges brought by the military. The terms of the amnesty state that any freed detainees who reoffend will serve ...

open image in gallery A protester covered in fake blood flashes the three-finger salute next to an image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration outside the UN office ...

The freed inmates included just a small proportion of hundreds of political detainees locked up for opposing army rule since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

But there was no sign off former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned since the military coup in 2021.

Released prisoners, front center and right, are welcomed by family members and colleagues outside Insein Prison Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Yangon, Myanmar, as the military government has released ...