Category: Human Rights

A Myanmar junta court sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail for electoral fraud during 2020 polls her party won in a landslide, a source with knowledge of the case said Friday.Suu Kyi was “sentenced to three years imprisonment…

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha was suspended from his job by a Thai court Wednesday, after eight years in office, which has sunk the kingdom deep into authoritarianism and brought widening inequality. The former army chief had seized control in a 201…

Malaysia’s highest court has upheld former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s corruption conviction and 12-year jail sentence.The court said Tuesday Najib’s appeal was “devoid of any merits.”Najib was found guilty in July 2020 of receiving about $10 million …

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a long history of riling Beijing over democracy and human rights, whether by unveiling a banner on Tiananmen Square […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court issued an order yesterday, barring former Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and former Finance Minister, Basil Rajapaksa, from leaving the country without approval of the court, until Jul 28.A motion was filed on Jul…

Although detained by Myanmar’s military government on a slew of charges, ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was able to hold a small birthday celebration during a court appearance Monday, a legal official said.Suu Kyi, whose elected government was overthro…

UNITED NATIONS,— The United Nations condemned the fatal shooting of a World Health Organization (WHO) employee in eastern Myanmar, the latest in a string of assassinations underlining the chaos in the country since last year’s coup.The UN and the WHO s…

Myanmar’s junta will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism, in the country’s first judicial executions since 1990, a spokesman told VOA’s Burmese Service on …