Election Forecast: Cloudy with a chance of arrest
OPINION: Police were overwhelmingly responsible for the violent confrontation with student protestors in Letpadan, writes researcher Matthew Bugher.
Tagged: police brutality
Rangoon death sparks allegations of police brutality
The family of a man who died from a brain haemorrhage mid-October have filed a complaint to the Myanmar Human Rights Commission, claiming he had been beaten by police a week earlier.
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Sintgu farmers clash with police in plough protest
Forty police officers were briefly held captive on Thursday night by residents of Mandalay Division’s Sintgu Township.
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Thugs attack reporters in Mandalay: police deny involvement
Mandalay police deny any connection to men in civilian clothing, alleged to be informers, who attacked reporters covering a protest on Monday right in front of law enforcement officials who looked on without interfering.
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Police remove guard posts to appease Latpadaung villagers
Authorities in Sagaing division have acceded to a demand by residents in Mogyopyin village, near the Latpadaung copper mine project, to remove police guard posts from around their village following a violent altercation last week which left both protestors and police in hospital.
EU may be breaching Burma arms embargo, say activists
The European Union could be breaching its embargo against Burma by providing riot gear to the Burmese police force as part of a new training programme, campaigners have warned.
Villagers beat, apprehend 30 policemen in Pyinmana
Police get more than they bargained for when villagers set upon them for attempting to arrest a local NLD member who was a supporter of local farmers’ rights.
Transgender women assaulted by police
Activists are planning on taking legal action against Mandalay’s police force following reports that the department’s officers sexually humiliated and physically assaulted a group of transgender women last week. Equality[…]
