Comedian becomes latest victim of the kangaroo courts
Burma's best known satirist and comedian, Zarganar (pictured), was sentenced to 45 years imprisonment today by a kangaroo court ordered by the country's brutal regime to silence him once and for all. Zarganar, whose name means 'pliers', is a qualified dentist but the name refers rather to the pain he… [continued]
Military regime jails rapper
A Burmese pop star who commands a huge following among his country’s young people was today sentenced by a Rangoon court to six years imprisonment for his role in the anti-regime protest movement. Zayar Thaw, co-founder of the hip-hop group ACID, became the latest opposition figure to… [continued]
Dissident blogger given 20 years
A young Burmese blogger who fed the outside world news from a locked-down country on the September 2007 uprising was sentenced to 20 years and six months imprisonment today. Nay Phone Latt, 28, is one of more than a dozen dissidents now being brought before military judges in a… [continued]
Jailed activists sentenced for contempt of court
Nine leading Burmese pro-democracy activists, including the former deputy of Aung San Suu Kyi, have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for contempt of court after complaining that their trials were being held in secret, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. All nine have been… [continued]
Police on streets for anniversary of brutal crackdown
Armed riot police patrolled Rangoon and several other Burmese cities today as the country's opposition movement marked the first anniversary of the brutal crackdown on last September’s
demonstrations, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. The date September 26 has entered Burma's calendar of events… [continued]
In pictures: Junta cracks down on protesters 
Journalist Win Tin freed by Burmese junta after 19 years in jail
Burma's longest-serving political prisoner, 78-year-old journalist Win Tin, was freed today after 19 years behind bars, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. Win Tin was among 9,002 prisoners released, only a handful of whom were political detainees. The freed political prisoners included another well-known… [continued]
Pro-democracy websites under attack on anniversary of protests
The websites of three Burmese opposition news organisations have been put out of service in a sophisticated electronic attack launched by pro-regime hackers, writes Edward Loxton for The First
Post. For the past two days, the three websites - the Democratic Voice of Burma, The Irrawaddy and New Era… [continued]
In pictures: Burmese junta opens fire on monks
Suu Kyi’s supporters banned from visiting her sick housekeeper
Burmese authorities have sealed off a Rangoon hospital to prevent outsiders from visiting a sick woman companion of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. Members of her opposition National League for Democracy, who were denied entry to the hospital by security… [continued]
Aung San Suu Kyi ‘on hunger strike’
Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be on a hunger strike and is refusing all contact with the outside world, according to senior members of her National League for Democracy, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. Her lawyer, Kyi Win, was the last person to… [continued]
Students celebrate 1988 Burma protests with spray-paint campaign
Student activists at universities in Rangoon and Mandalay are literally painting the town red in a campaign to draw public attention to the 20th anniversary this Friday of the bloody crackdown on the country's biggest post-independence uprising, in August 1988 writes Edward Loxton for The First Post.… [continued]
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