Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar on charges of breaking the country’s Official Secrets Act are innocent, according to the British government. Continue reading
“Myanmar is an absolutely beautiful country. The people are full of joy and the food is amazing,” Dorsey tweeted. Continue reading
Bangladesh is abandoning plans to send 700,000 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, citing the group’s unwillingness to go back to a country where many of their people were killed. Continue reading
Myanmar leader Aun San Suu Kyi will not be stripped of her Nobel Peace Prize despite the Rohingya genocide, the head of the Nobel Foundation says. Continue reading
Canada has voted to call it a Rohingya genocide and to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of her honourary citizenship, but advocates urge that there’s more to do. Continue reading
MPs have unanimously endorsed a Bloc Quebecois motion to revoke the honorary Canadian citizenship of Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Continue reading
Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were convicted on Sept. 3 under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act in a case that was seen as a test of democratic freedoms in Myanmar. Continue reading
“I wonder whether very many people have actually read the summary of the judgement which had nothing to do with freedom of expression at all…” Continue reading
Suu Kyi is being pilloried by diplomats and human rights activists after a judge in Myanmar sentenced two Reuters journalists to jail for seven years. Continue reading
A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years. Continue reading