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11:00 AM, 02 February 2021 News Briefing
24 Deputy Union Ministers were dismissed from their duties according to the Office of the Commander-in-Chief on Feb 1.
Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman and...
Reuters reporters trial: CSOs call for investigation into ‘entrapment’ claim
The CSOs also called for the release of two police officers, one of whom testified last Friday at the trial, saying that a police team had “set up” the journalists.
36 political prisoners included in Thingyan presidential amnesty
Two Kachin pastors and a Buddhist abbot jailed for "Unlawful Association" are freed, but Reuters journalists remain behind bars.
Rape avoidance 101: Government advice on curbing sexual assault elicits scorn
The Home Affairs Ministry has been blasted for re-enforcing harmful assumptions about gender-based violence after it released a document positing that women consuming alcohol was among the leading causes of the rape of women and children.
Prison reform put on the back burner
A new prison law was discussed in parliament in 2015, but not passed. Nor has it been taken up by the NLD who took power in early 2016.
Woman convicted in high-profile Yangon domestic abuse case dies in prison
Tin Thuzar, the owner and matriarch of a Yangon tailoring shop embroiled in a high-profile domestic abuse case that saw her sentenced to more than 15 years in prison last month, died on Sunday at Insein Prison Hospital.
