BANGKOK — Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred to house arrest in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, her legal team confirmed on Friday, marking a significant change in her detention status after more than four years of imprisonment following the 2021 military coup. Myanmar military court extends Aung San Suu […]
A military court in Burma (Myanmar) has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to seven years in prison after finding her guilty of five counts of corruption in the latest case against her, sources close to the trial said. With this new sentence, Suu Kyi, 77 years old and detained in a prison in […]
Detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” said the lead lawyer defending her in court cases brought by the junta that overthrew her elected government two months ago following their first meeting on Wednesday. The deposed state counselor, 75, spoke with junior attorney Min Min Soe via video conference in the […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Myanmar’s military on Thursday charged Aung San Suu Kyi with corruption, alleging she illegally accepted gold bars and $600,000 (€501,500). It comes as the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar said that the military is “likely engaging in crimes against humanity.” A military spokesman told reporters […]
Hundreds of teachers and students poured onto the streets of Myanmar’s largest city Yangon after the country’s military, Tatmadaw, expanded their arrests of Myanmarese officials on 5 February in the follow up to the 1 February coup. A new wave of protests has hit the country hours after the military arrested Win Htein – a […]
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha joined Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi today to preside over the opening of the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge across the Moei River, linking Thailand’s Mae Sot district and Myawaddy town in Myanmar. Thai Government deputy spokesman Lt-Gen Weerachon Sukhondhapatipak said Prime Minister Prayut hailed the opening of the […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A petrol bomb was thrown at the lakeside Yangon compound of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday while she was away from her home, a government spokesman said. “It was a petrol bomb,” spokesman Zaw Htay confirmed to AFP, without giving further details on a possible motive for a small […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, visited areas hit by conflict in the western state of Rakhine on Thursday for the first time since a crackdown launched by the country’s military against Rohingya Muslim minority two months ago sparked a refugee crisis. Suu Kyi boarded a military helicopter at Sittwe, […]
