Myanmar’s military junta has pardoned nearly 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual new year’s amnesty, but there are no ...

Myanmar has been under military rule since Feb. 1, 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected ...

James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

Many political detainees have been held on a charge of incitement, a catch-all offense widely used to arrest critics of the ...

Also this week, the regime chief greeted Thingyan with a poll push and more airstrikes, and met with Malaysia’s PM, and began ...

Myanmar has been under military rule since February 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's elected ...

Myanmar's ruling military has extended a temporary ceasefire in its conflict with rebels to April 30, in a move to expedite ...

Myanmar has been under military rule since February 2021, when its army ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected ...

Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since a 2021 military coup that unseated an elected civilian government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, triggering a massive protest movement that ...

“In this spirit we call on the military to announce a full amnesty for detainees it has incarcerated since February 2021, including state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint.