The civilian accomplices who tell the junta when and where to arrest protesters are part of a long tradition of treachery in the country.
Daw Moe Hsan Suu Kyi was among several Rakhine National League for Democracy members seized over the weekend.
Regime accuses the political and armed resistance organizations of incitement; those guilty of affiliation with them face 10 years to life in prison.
Informants led junta forces to three houses in Hpakant, whose residents were then detained.
The ousted State Counselor faces five legal cases and has not yet been allowed to meet her lawyers in person.
Those killed include a poet who was tortured to death and had his organs removed, and a medic who fell from a building while trying to flee a raid by...
After being imprisoned for nearly 100 days by the junta since the coup, Ko Mya Aye faces hate speech charges for an email he wrote in 2014.
Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government says the people do not want it to hold talks with the junta.
Residents of Kani Township in dire straits after fleeing to the jungle in the face of raids on their villages by the regime’s troops.
The striking professors and administrators from 15 universities are included on lists of ‘absent’ educators sent to the junta by rectors.
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