Sunday’s final phase of the junta’s vote features entrenched power networks, uncontested seats and elections held in active conflict zones.

On 1 May 2024, Amnesty International launched a solidarity action for the young trade union leader Thet Hnin Aung in Myanmar. He has been imprisoned since 2021 because he opposed the military junta.

The UEC said People’s Pioneer Party chief and ex-regime minister Daw Thet Thet Khine violated the constitution and political party registration law.

(Mizzima/IFEX) – Defying demands of the international community and its own people to free pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, on 27 May 2008 Burma’s military rulers extended her house arrest, ...