The junta also announced that 144 people who had been sentenced to life in prison would have their sentences commuted to 15 years. Myanmar frequently grants amnesty to thousands of prisoners to ...

BANGKOK--A military court in Myanmar has given a life prison sentence to a local journalist and sentenced one of his colleagues to 20 years after convicting them under a counterterrorism law ...

Fenster, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, is being held at Insein Prison in Myanmar’s capital of Yangon. The prison is notorious for its rough conditions, especially for political prisoners.

Sentenced to three years in jail for violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act, Mr Turnell said what did come as a surprise was when a prison guard in November 2022 told him he was heading home.

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The ...