Security forces arrested the four for allegedly inciting bank staff to join the CDM. Since then their families have lost contact with them.
Myanmar’s banking network has barely operated since numerous staff joined the civil disobedience movement.
Daw Phyu Phyu Thin’s office was raided by the regime’s security forces on Tuesday night.
Marches against the military regime continue in Monywa, despite 10 deaths and numerous detentions.
Elected lawmakers say that the junta will use the revenue from oil and gas sales to continue their human rights violations in Myanmar
The 16-year-old was staying at a friend’s house when she was shot twice by the junta’s security forces.
Dr. Sa Sa says he is proud of the charge, calling it a declaration of war on federal democracy, freedom and justice by the regime.
Two more people were shot dead by security forces in Yangon and Sagaing on Tuesday.
The ten are the first civil servants to be sent to jail for joining the civil disobedience movement.
The Kachin Independence Army has previously told the military junta not to harm peaceful, anti-regime protesters.
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