Myanmar objects to monitoring powers of new ASEAN human rights body
July 22, 2008
[JURIST] Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win has called for the newly-established Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) [official website] to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of ASEAN member nations. The comments, made during a Monday meeting to organize the new ASEAN human.... [more] 
Myanmar signs ASEAN charter despite criticism of rights record
July 21, 2008
[JURIST] Myanmar signed on [ceremony speech] to a new Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) [official website] charter Monday, despite other ASEAN members' criticism [statement text] of the country's human rights record and continued detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC.... [more]
Myanmar opposition members sentenced to year in prison for constitution protest
July 5, 2008
[JURIST] Four members of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) have been jailed for a year for having campaigned against the country's then-draft constitution [JURIST news archive], according to NLD spokesperson Nyan Win as quoted by AP. Win said Friday the four were arrested in March for.... [more]
UNHRC condemns Myanmar human rights abuses, calls for investigation
June 19, 2008
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] Wednesday criticized the government of Myanmar [A/HRC/8/L.12 text, PDF] for its continued human rights abuses and refusal to cooperate with humanitarian groups. The resolution calls on the Myanmar government to free political.... [more]
Myanmar state media defends Suu Kyi house arrest extension into sixth year
June 11, 2008
[JURIST] Myanmar law allows the continued detention of pro-democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], the government-run New Light of Myanmar [media website] insisted in an editorial Wednesday. The editorial cited Myanmar's 1975 "Law Safeguarding the State from.... [more]
Myanmar junta releases political activists arrested at Suu Kyi demonstration
June 10, 2008
[JURIST] Fifteen members of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) were released from custody Monday, two weeks after their arrests at a demonstration in support of detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The activists had staged the event to support Suu.... [more]
Myanmar police fired on prisoners during cyclone: UN rights report
June 6, 2008
[JURIST] The Myanmar military government should investigate allegations that police opened fire on panicked prisoners during last month's devastating cyclone, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana [official website] said Friday. In a report [PDF.... [more]
Myanmar constitutional referendum erases 1990 opposition triumph: junta
June 3, 2008
[JURIST] Last month's constitutional referendum [JURIST report] in Myanmar approving a new national charter put forward by the military has effectively "washed away" any mandate to govern claimed by opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD), state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar.... [more]
Myanmar junta to detain democracy activist Suu Kyi for another year
May 27, 2008
[JURIST] The ruling junta of Myanmar Tuesday extended the house arrest of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for another year, a decision that has angered and frustrated many in the international community. Suu Kyi's detention was set to expire at midnight.... [more]
Myanmar constitution overwhelmingly approved after second round of voting
May 26, 2008
[JURIST] Myanmar's draft constitution [JURIST news archive] has been overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum after two rounds of voting with 92 percent of votes cast favoring the proposed charter and 98 percent of the country's 27 million eligible voters turning out, state television.... [more]
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