It is unclear whether that full number will be released as many may have additional convictions. Read more at ...

U Kyi Toe, ex-chief of the NLD’s Information Committee, pledged ‘to be strong to work together’ with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains jailed in Naypyitaw.

Excited families are greeting relatives released from Myanmar’s Insein Prison as part of a mass amnesty granted by the ...

State media in Myanmar say the country's military rulers have granted amnesty to over 3,000 prisoners locked up for opposing army rule and dropped charges against over 5,500 others ahead of next month ...

Myanmar's ruling military is gearing up for general elections next month. Many civilians have reportedly been arrested as the junta ramps up its crackdown on critics.

Myanmar's junta will pardon or drop charges against a total of 8,665 people, state media reported on Thursday, allowing them ...

Rights groups have criticized the Trump administration's decision to end deportation protections for Myanmar citizens.

In 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, ...

Lawyers for a pro-Palestinian protest group banned by the British government are challenging its classification as a ...

In the ’70s, hip-hop was budding at block and house parties in the Bronx, where DJs spinning turntables moved crowds like puppet masters. Until the late ’70s, ...