Five members of the Tavoy University Students Union were sentenced on Wednesday for their involvement in an education law protests earlier this year.

Five members of the Tavoy University Students Union were sentenced on Wednesday for their involvement in an education law protests earlier this year.
“With ten journalists now languishing behind bars, proponents of the country’s supposed democratic progress should wake up and take notice of the authoritarian reality that still governs the country.”
Despite the president’s promise to rid Burma’s jails of political prisoners by the end of 2013, a leading advocacy group claims that the number of prisoners of conscience has increased…
DVB spoke with prominent activist and former Burmese army captain, Nay Myo Zin, this week about participating in peaceful protests and how it can lead to clashes with the government.
Two well-known activists have been sentenced to three months in prison for violating Burma’s controversial Right to Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Act, after staging a rally without prior permission…
An activist was sentenced to one year in prison with hard labour for distributing leaflets that claimed that Aung San Suu Kyi and ethnic political leaders formed an interim government.