October 20, 2022

Myanmar’s military junta on Thursday banned family visits and delivery of food and other necessities to inmates in seven prisons across the country after an explosion at Yangon’s Insein Prison killed eight people the day before, relatives and lawyers of the prisoners said. Many prisoners in Myanmar rely on food from families and friends to supplement their poor prison diet. One woman said her sister, locked up in Insein Prison after the February 2021 coup for setting off explosives, suffers from a stomach disease they believe was caused by prison food.  “She can’t eat it – horrible quality of rice

Military council Army officer Cpt. Myint Swe has been shot dead along with his wife and another army serviceman in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon. Myint Swe, his wife Yadanar Oo and a colleague Aung Ko Min were killed as they returned to the captain’s family home in Hlaing township on Thursday at around 9:30 a.m. according to local residents. All three died on the spot, a source – who did not want to be named for safety reasons – told RFA. “[Mying Swe] was going back to his parents’ house. They were shot near the Thiri Myaing bus stop. I