Aung San Suu Kyi

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison, extending an already-existing sentence.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has postponed its verdicts on two charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in which she is accused of importing and possessing walkie-talkies without following official procedures.

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted on two charges and handed a four-year sentence that was quickly reduced

The trial against Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has begun

Myanmar’s ousted leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint have not been given their full “pre-trial rights,” according to a lawyer representing both of them.

Reports from Myanmar say at least 82 people were killed in one day in a crackdown by security forces on pro-democracy protesters

Sanctions appear to inhibit Myanmar junta little as violence increases

The United States on Monday has suspended a trade deal with Myanmar until a democratic government is restored in the Southeast Asian country after a Feb. 1 coup followed by a violent crackdown on mass protests

Police in Myanmar’s biggest city have fired tear gas at defiant crowds who returned to the streets to protest last month’s coup

The U.S. Embassy in Myanmar on Saturday released a statement condemning the fatal police shootings of two anti-coup protestors in Mandalay.

A lawyer for Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi says police have filed a new charge against her

President Joe Biden said he will sanction leaders of the military coup in Myanmar that has imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Police in Myanmar have charged ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with possessing several illegally imported walkie-talkies in her home.

Myanmar’s military has seized control of the country and jailed its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, claiming unsubstantiated fraud in the country’s recent November election.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has denied that Myanmar’s armed forces committed genocide against her country’s Rohingya people. The former pro-democracy icon who leads Myanmar appeared before the United Nation’s top court on Wednesday to defend the army that kept her under house arrest for 15 years. Suu Kyi received the 1991 Nobel...

The wives of two Myanmar reporters for the Reuters news agency sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for possessing state secrets said Tuesday they were shocked by the court’s decision. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced Monday in proceedings that were widely decried as unfair. They had reported about the army’s brutal counterinsurgency campaign that drove 700,000 members of...

Attacks on Rohingya Muslims appear to be continuing in Myanmar and it is not yet safe for the hundreds of thousands living in refugee camps in Bangladesh to begin returning home, a senior United Nations official said. Many Rohingya want to return eventually to their villages in Myanmar, UNICEF deputy executive director Justin Forsyth said Wednesday during a visit to...

Pope Francis insisted Tuesday that Myanmar’s future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been subject to decades of discrimination and a recent military crackdown described by the U.N. as a textbook campaign of “ethnic cleansing.” Francis didn’t cite the crackdown or even utter the contested word “Rohingya”...

Pope Francis traveled to Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday to meet with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has come under increasing international criticism over a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims that the U.N. and U.S. have termed a campaign of “ethnic cleansing.” Francis’ speech to Suu Kyi, other Myanmar officials and the diplomatic corps is the most anticipated of...

Pope Francis opened a diplomatically fraught trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh on Monday by immediately diving into the crisis over Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims: He met with the country’s military chief, even before beginning the official program of his trip. The Vatican didn’t provide details of the contents of Francis’ 15-minute “courtesy visit” with Gen. Min Aung Hlaing and...