Myanmar authorities have detained the United Kingdom's former ambassador to the country, a diplomatic source said on Thursday. Vicky Bowman, who served as envoy from 2002 to 2006, was arrested on ...

YANGON, Myanmar, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Despite concerns by Amnesty International, Myanmar's Human Rights Commission gave the notorious Insein Prison a clean bill of health, except for being overcrowded. A ...

(Reuters) - A bus carrying prisoners freed in an amnesty in Myanmar was seen leaving Insein jail in the commercial capital Yangon on Thursday, two witnesses told Reuters. (Reuters) – A bus carrying ...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's main prison vaccinated more than 600 inmates against COVID-19 on the first day of a drive to inoculate inmates, state media reported on Thursday, as military authorities struggle ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Singapore: Eleven weeks after he was detained by Myanmar’s new junta, the whereabouts of Australian economist Sean Turnell have finally ...

June 30 Myanmar’s authorities will free around 700 prisoners from Yangon’s Insein jail on Wednesday, prison chief Zaw Zaw told Reuters, in a release that is ...

Built by the British in 1871, Insein is Myanmar's largest prison, housing many people arrested for opposing the junta which surged to power in February 2021. The prison was designed to incarcerate ...

Bombs inside parcels exploded at Myanmar’s biggest jail on Wednesday prompting soldiers to return fire in a confrontation in which at least eight people were killed, state media and a witness said. An ...

Conditions in Burma's jails are often criticised by rights groups A group of Burmese political prisoners has staged a hunger strike to demand better living conditions. A lawyer told the BBC's Burmese ...