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Myanmar Court To Give Final Verdict In Aung San Suu Kyi Trials On Friday
A court in military-ruled Myanmar will deliver its final verdicts in cases against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, said a source familiar her trials, wrapping up marathon proceedings that have been condemned in the West as a sham.
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Myanmar Junta To Carry Out First Judicial Executions In Decades
Myanmar's junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country's first judicial executions since 1990.
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Myanmar Junta Arrests Lawyer Defending Aung San Suu Kyi Ally: Report
A prominent Myanmar lawyer defending a close ally of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested and charged with financing terrorism, a source close to the case said Friday.
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Myanmar Junta Replaces Ousted Leader Aung San Suu Kyi At UN Top Court
Myanmar's junta is set to replace Aung San Suu Kyi at the UN's top court Monday as it seeks to dismiss a case over the alleged genocide of Rohingya Muslims.
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'Democracy Champion' Aung Suu Kyi's Bleak Detention And Myanmar's Future
After years on the front lines of Myanmar's battle for democracy, 76-year-old Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is once again a prisoner of the military, facing the bleak possibility of decades in detention.
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Myanmar's Ousted Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Jailed For Four Years In Trial
A Myanmar court on Monday jailed ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for four years for inciting dissent against the military and breaching Covid rules, a spokesman for the junta told AFP.
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Myanmar Court To Deliver First Verdicts In Aung San Suu Kyi Trial
A court in military-ruled Myanmar is due to deliver the first verdicts on Tuesday in nearly a dozen cases against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on trial for offences that carry combined maximum jail sentences of more than 100 years.
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Facebook, WhatsApp Blocked by Myanmar Junta as Opposition to Coup Grows
Myanmar's junta blocked Facebook in the name of ensuring stability and activists said at least three people were arrested at a street protest against the coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar's Military Purges Government, Names 11 New Ministers
Myanmar's ruling junta on Monday announced a purge of Aung San Suu Kyi's government, removing 24 ministers and deputies and naming 11 replacements in its new administration after seizing power in a coup.
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17 Rohingya, Including Children, Drown Fleeing Myanmar
Bangladesh coastguards on Thursday found the bodies of 17 Rohingya, many of them children, who drowned when their boats capsized as they fled violence in Myanmar that has forced at least 18,500 to seek refuge across the border.
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Rohingya Men Answer Call To Arms Against Myanmar's Forces
Heavily pregnant and confined to a squalid Bangladeshi refugee camp, Ayesha Begum does not regret that her husband will miss the imminent birth of their sixth child as he fights alongside Rohingya militants in Myanmar.
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Human Rights Groups Warn Myanmar Over Rohingya Issue
The actions of Myanmar's military may constitute crimes against humanity, human rights group Amnesty International has warned, based on accounts of violence against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority.
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Myanmar Anti-Muslim Activist Arrested For Post About Aung San Suu Kyi
A head of a Buddhist nationalist group says a prominent anti-Muslim activist has been arrested for posting a provocative statement on Facebook about Myanmar's army commander and the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar Court Frees Student Activists After Aung San Suu Kyi Pledge
A Myanmar court today freed dozens of jailed students, in the first wave of detainee releases after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to make releasing activists and political prisoners the first priority of her new government.
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Dressing Down: Myanmar Activist Jailed For 'Ridiculing' Army And Uniform
A Myanmar court jailed a woman for six months today for a Facebook post "ridiculing" the country's army chief and the colour of a new uniform, the latest in an escalating crackdown on free speech.
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Myanmar Court To Give Final Verdict In Aung San Suu Kyi Trials On Friday
A court in military-ruled Myanmar will deliver its final verdicts in cases against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, said a source familiar her trials, wrapping up marathon proceedings that have been condemned in the West as a sham.
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Myanmar Junta To Carry Out First Judicial Executions In Decades
Myanmar's junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country's first judicial executions since 1990.
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Myanmar Junta Arrests Lawyer Defending Aung San Suu Kyi Ally: Report
A prominent Myanmar lawyer defending a close ally of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested and charged with financing terrorism, a source close to the case said Friday.
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Myanmar Junta Replaces Ousted Leader Aung San Suu Kyi At UN Top Court
Myanmar's junta is set to replace Aung San Suu Kyi at the UN's top court Monday as it seeks to dismiss a case over the alleged genocide of Rohingya Muslims.
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'Democracy Champion' Aung Suu Kyi's Bleak Detention And Myanmar's Future
After years on the front lines of Myanmar's battle for democracy, 76-year-old Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is once again a prisoner of the military, facing the bleak possibility of decades in detention.
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Myanmar's Ousted Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Jailed For Four Years In Trial
A Myanmar court on Monday jailed ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for four years for inciting dissent against the military and breaching Covid rules, a spokesman for the junta told AFP.
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Myanmar Court To Deliver First Verdicts In Aung San Suu Kyi Trial
A court in military-ruled Myanmar is due to deliver the first verdicts on Tuesday in nearly a dozen cases against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on trial for offences that carry combined maximum jail sentences of more than 100 years.
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Facebook, WhatsApp Blocked by Myanmar Junta as Opposition to Coup Grows
Myanmar's junta blocked Facebook in the name of ensuring stability and activists said at least three people were arrested at a street protest against the coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar's Military Purges Government, Names 11 New Ministers
Myanmar's ruling junta on Monday announced a purge of Aung San Suu Kyi's government, removing 24 ministers and deputies and naming 11 replacements in its new administration after seizing power in a coup.
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17 Rohingya, Including Children, Drown Fleeing Myanmar
Bangladesh coastguards on Thursday found the bodies of 17 Rohingya, many of them children, who drowned when their boats capsized as they fled violence in Myanmar that has forced at least 18,500 to seek refuge across the border.
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Rohingya Men Answer Call To Arms Against Myanmar's Forces
Heavily pregnant and confined to a squalid Bangladeshi refugee camp, Ayesha Begum does not regret that her husband will miss the imminent birth of their sixth child as he fights alongside Rohingya militants in Myanmar.
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Human Rights Groups Warn Myanmar Over Rohingya Issue
The actions of Myanmar's military may constitute crimes against humanity, human rights group Amnesty International has warned, based on accounts of violence against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority.
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Myanmar Anti-Muslim Activist Arrested For Post About Aung San Suu Kyi
A head of a Buddhist nationalist group says a prominent anti-Muslim activist has been arrested for posting a provocative statement on Facebook about Myanmar's army commander and the country's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar Court Frees Student Activists After Aung San Suu Kyi Pledge
A Myanmar court today freed dozens of jailed students, in the first wave of detainee releases after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to make releasing activists and political prisoners the first priority of her new government.
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Dressing Down: Myanmar Activist Jailed For 'Ridiculing' Army And Uniform
A Myanmar court jailed a woman for six months today for a Facebook post "ridiculing" the country's army chief and the colour of a new uniform, the latest in an escalating crackdown on free speech.
