Myanmar authorities prosecuting activists and critics despite the COVID-19 pandemic Published at 28.04.2020 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: youth HRD detained criminal defamation torture/ill-treatment non state actors women minority groups attack on journalist protest internet restriction restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights land rights Read more
Despite serious crimes probe, Myanmar continues to silence critics and block the internet Published at 17.01.2020 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: youth protest criminal defamation internet restriction censorship protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Sustained attack on civic freedoms in Myanmar with ongoing prosecutions and internet blackout Published at 16.08.2019 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained excessive force criminal defamation protest internet restriction extractive industries restrictive law censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted land rights Read more
Protesters in Myanmar face arbitrary arrest, prosecution and excessive force Published at 01.04.2019 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women minority groups HRD detained negative court ruling excessive force criminal defamation restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained land rights Read more
Activists say freedom of expression worsening as Suu Kyi is stripped of award Published at 14.11.2018 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling protest disruption criminal defamation protest prevention of protest restrictive law censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
UN fact-finding mission finds serious crimes fuelled by the silencing of critical voices Published at 19.09.2018 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: minority groups HRD detained protest criminal defamation prevention of protest restrictive law protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
Scores of anti-war protesters prosecuted across Myanmar Published at 18.07.2018 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: youth protest disruption women minority groups HRD detained excessive force criminal defamation protest torture/ill-treatment restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar concerned over shrinking civic space Published at 29.03.2018 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI minority groups HRD detained excessive force criminal defamation prevention of protest restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
Central Yangon bans protests while critics are criminalised Published at 19.01.2018 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained prevention of protest land rights restrictive law bureaucratic restriction Read more
Deepening humanitarian crisis now coined a "catastrophe" Published at 30.10.2017 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: women refugees and migrants religious groups minority groups travel ban sexual assault torture/ill-treatment bureaucratic restriction HRD acquitted Read more
Authorities hinder civil society's monitoring and human rights activities in Rakhine Published at 26.07.2017 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship censorship religious groups minority groups travel ban Read more
Burmese civil society fights back against restrictions on freedom of expression Published at 22.06.2017 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: women attack on HRD intimidation harassment attack on journalist HRD detained protest restrictive law HRD acquitted censorship journalist detained surveillance HRD threatened Read more
No improvement on civic space: Myanmar shuns international scrutiny Published at 05.05.2017 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption religious groups travel ban excessive force protest prevention of protest extractive industries violent protest protestor(s) detained land rights private sector non state actors Read more
International alarm over the persecution of Rohingya Muslims Published at 13.03.2017 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on HRD travel ban HRD killing prevention of protest torture/ill-treatment bureaucratic restriction time,place restrictions censorship access to info. law surveillance private sector religious groups minority groups protest extractive industries violent protest Read more
Free speech still being curtailed under Myanmar's new government Published at 10.01.2017 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: time,place restrictions HRD detained protest Read more
Violence in Rakhine state prompts international condemnation of authorities in Myanmar Published at 16.11.2016 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship HRD detained HRD killing excessive force minority groups Read more
Myanmar mosque ransacked by armed mob and youth conference banned Published at 03.08.2016 Country Myanmar Category Latest Developments Tags: prevention of protest religious groups release of HRDs time,place restrictions HRD detained labour rights Read more
