Legal Matters

The Myanmar authorities have seized a large amount of ammonium nitrate, in Kachin state, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC).The joint anti-narcotic police made a seizure in Mohnyin township.About 17,460 ki…

Rohingya Excluded, Unequal Media Access, Arrests of Critics(Bangkok) – Myanmar’s electoral process is undermined by systemic problems and rights abuses that will deprive people of their right to fairly elect their government, Human Rights Watch said to…

Rohingya refugees living on Bhashan Char said Bangladesh Navy personnel beat them with rubber clubs and tree branches last month when they protested their detention on the island, according to a Human Rights Watch statement on Thursday, drawing denials…

The arrest of an alleged fugitive with a shadowy past who leads an obscure Myanmar political party running the second-largest slate of candidates has sparked intrigue as well as criticism of lax election standards just five weeks before the Southeast A…

In a rare move, Bangladesh police have transferred the entire 1,400-strong force out of Cox’s Bazar to bring new personnel into the southern border district that hosts about a million Rohingya refugees, officials said Friday.The district’s police force…

Myanmar’s military and political parties on Monday condemned intimidation tactics in the run-up to November polls after the weekend discovery of unexploded hand grenades at the home of the top election official in the capital Naypyidaw.With Myanmar hea…

A global human rights group has claimed that more than 100 Rohingya refugees were victims of extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh since 2017, but a senior government official told BenarNews that all Rohingya slain in “crossfire” incidents were drug tra…

Myanmar on Tuesday rejected concerns raised by the top U.N. human rights official about recent government actions in Rakhine state, saying there had been no effort to destroy evidence of the military campaign that drove 740,000 Rohingya Muslims into ne…

Sittwe, Myanmar – In support of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement (MoSWRR), the Rakhine State Government and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have signed an agreement for the provision of short-term food assistance at…

The U.N. human rights chief on Monday said the Myanmar military’s brutal tactics in its 21-month-long war in Rakhine state were producing possible war crimes, and said Naypyidaw had made no progress in resolving an earlier crisis sparked by the army’s …

Madam President,Excellencies,I am pleased to participate, with my distinguished fellow panelists, in this discussion of Myanmar, pursuant to Resolution 42/3. As requested, you have before you a report by the Office. With elections approaching in early …

Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to protest unusual troop movements near its southeastern borders, where refugee camps house close to 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar, authorities said Monday.Border Guard Bang…

Myanmar authorities seized 13.2 kg of heroin in Mandalay region, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC), yesterday.Acting on a tip-off, the joint anti-narcotic police force, made a seizure in Pyin Oo Lwin towns…

GENEVA – Nations accused of violating their citizens’ rights and freedoms will come under intense scrutiny by the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council during its upcoming three-week session, which begins on Monday. As its first order of business, the co…

The senseless deaths of two young children and two adults in Rakhine State has left Save the Children deeply sad and frustrated. The children, both only five years old, were hit by what appear to have been artillery shells that fell in Nyaung Khet Kan …